percy, why didn't you tell me i would have put my book down

Against all odds, some two millennia later, these incredible documents survive. The private diaries of one of Rome’s greatest emperors, the personal letters of one of Rome’s best playwrights and wisest power brokers, the lectures of a former slave and exile, turned influential teacher. All the harvest of the past is added to their store. Not satisfied to merely keep good watch over their own days, they annex every age to their own. “Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live.

Memento Mori: Meditate On Your Mortality.

How To Be A Stoic: 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started

The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday.

The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman.

Click the links below to navigate to a specific section or scroll and read the entirety of the page: So what is Stoicism? Who were the Stoics? How can you be a Stoic? We answer all your questions and more below.

Frederick the Great, Montaigne, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Theodore Roosevelt, General James Mattis, -just to name a few-were all influenced by Stoic philosophy. It has been practiced by Kings, presidents, artists, writers and entrepreneurs. Stoicism has been a common thread though some of history’s great leaders.

It’s a philosophy designed to make us more resilient, happier, more virtuous and more wise–and as a result, better people, better parents and better professionals. For those of us who live our lives in the real world, there is one branch of philosophy created just for us: Stoicism.

Percy, why didn't you tell me i would have put my book down