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The Stoic's Bookshelf

For the days when the world is too much. Two thousand years of writers who found calm in chaos, meaning in suffering, and freedom in discipline. This is not self-help. These are voices that were tested by imprisonment, exile, plague, and loss, and came through it with something hard-won and real to say about how to live. Quiet on the surface. Seismic underneath.

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

  • 1. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius, 180 CE
  • 2. The EnchiridionEpictetus, 135 CE
  • 3. Letters to LuciliusSeneca, 65 CE
  • 4. The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius, 524 CE
  • 5. The Tao Te ChingLaozi, 600 BCE
  • 6. The DhammapadaAnonymous, 300 BCE
  • 7. PenséesBlaise Pascal, 1670
  • 8. Self-RelianceRalph Waldo Emerson, 1841
  • 9. WaldenHenry David Thoreau, 1854
  • 10. Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau, 1849
  • 11. NatureRalph Waldo Emerson, 1836
  • 12. Man's Search for MeaningViktor Frankl, 1946
  • 13. Gravity and GraceSimone Weil, 1947
  • 14. Letters to a Young PoetRainer Maria Rilke, 1929
  • 15. I and ThouMartin Buber, 1923