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Meditations: Deluxe Slipcase Edition
$19.99 Add to cartMarcus Aurelius’s classic work Meditations is presented in a handsome silkbound hardback edition in a decorative slipcase.
Meditations is a classic work of Stoic philosophy, collecting the personal w- Series: Arcturus Silkbound Classics
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1398860840
- Language: English
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How to Find Happiness: An Ancient Guide to the Good Life
$18.95 Add to cartDoes happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question
“Of course, we all want to be happy.” So wrote the Roman states- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Volk, Katharina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691263396
- Language: English
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Major Works of the Stoics 3-Book Boxed Set: Meditations; Letters from a Stoic; Discourses and Selected Writings
$72.00 Add to cartA beautiful, boxed set of the major works by the three great Stoic philosophers, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
This collection presents the greatest works by the three major Stoic philosophers, i- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 024176579X
- Language: English
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Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno
$10.95 Add to cartA unique selection of four dialogues in which Plato considers virtue– individual virtue as well as virtue as a whole– and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555664
- Language: English
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How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude
$17.95 Add to cartA delightful Aztec work that has much to teach us about the value of giving thanks–to our contemporaries, our elders, and our ancestors
Centuries before anyone ever thought of keeping a gratitude jou- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Texcoco, Pablo Of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0691274118
- Language: English
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How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions
$17.95 Add to cartA new translation of the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness–and how it can help us to be less controlled by our emotions
To feel is to suffer. But do we have to suffer as much as we do? Twenty-five hu- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Buddha, The
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0691267391
- Language: English
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The Politics
$14.00 Add to cart“Man is by nature a political animal”
In The Politics Aristotle addresses the questions that lie at the heart of political science. How should society be ordered to ensure the happiness of the individu
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 19 1981
- ISBN10: 0140444211
- Language: English
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Radical Antiquity: Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings
$24.95 Add to cart“Unearthing the ancient world’s anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended” – Alan Moore, writer, a
- Author: Zeichmann, Christopher B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0745350399
- Language: English
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The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
$18.95 Add to cart“Remarkable.”–Wall Street Journal
A thinking person’s guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928463
- Language: English
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How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship
$17.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of essential selections from Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy–a moving classic about facing life’s worst events with courage and hope
What do you do when yo- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 069125916X
- Language: English
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How to Make a Home: An Ancient Guide to Style and Comfort
$17.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration
The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as n- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249121
- Language: English
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How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving in
$17.95 Add to cartLively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation
How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Prudentius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0691220344
- Language: English
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The Portable Plato
$26.00 Add to cartWriting in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagi… [more below]
- Series: Portable Library
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150404
- Language: English
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Selected Discourses – The Wisdom of Epictetus: The Stoic Classic
$14.99 Read moreExplore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life
This new volume contains the Enchiridion and selected Discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epicte
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0857089951
- Language: English
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The Stoics: The Philosophy of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
$19.99 Add to cartThis luxurious hardback edition brings together four classic essays on Stoic philosophy from the Ancient Greek world, beautifully presented with gold embossing and stenciled page edges.
Is there an a- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1398849103
- Language: English
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Stoicism 101: From Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus to the Role of Reason and Amor Fati, an Essential Primer on Stoic Philosophy
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover all the essential wisdom of the stoics with this engaging, informative, and easy-to-understand guide to all the key philosophers, concepts, and principles of the stoic philosophy.
You’ve seen- Series: Adams 101
- Author: Cloward, Erick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223579
- Language: English
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Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartEpicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wilson, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019968832X
- Language: English
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Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito
$11.95 Add to cartThese new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato’s remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charge… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540500
- Language: English
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The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual
$18.95 Read more“Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn’t just a book to read–it’s a book to return t
- Author: Farnsworth, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928242
- Language: English
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How to Live – A Handbook of Stoic Philosophy: Discourses and the Enchiridion
$5.99 Read moreDelve into the profound teachings and timeless wisdom of Epictetus through his discourses and “The Enchiridion,” which offer readers a practical guide for living a fulfilling and virtuous life. In Dis… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9358565748
- Language: English
