The self-help market is flooded with books about Stoicism, an ancient school of philosophy that emphasizes equanimity and self-mastery and that includes, among its proponents, famed Roman statesman ...

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The terms “ancient school of philosophy” and “sweeping the culture” rarely — OK, never — appear in the same sentence, but in recent years, Stoicism, or what some call New Stoicism, has become the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A statue of Marcus Aurelius at Brown University. Aurelius wrote one of the best books about stoicism. Stoicism books explain this ...

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