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Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic is a quiet thunderclap—a collection of soul-deep meditations penned from the heart of an empire and the edge of mortality. In these letters, wisdom flows like a river through hardship, power, loss, and longing, offering not certainty but serenity. How does one remain unshaken in a world that trembles with fortune and fate? With luminous clarity and unflinching calm, this work invites you to step beyond the noise of ambition and into the silence where virtue becomes strength. It is not merely a guide to living, but a companion for enduring.
- Originally Published: 65 AD
- Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1969
- Genre: Philosophy
- Pages: 254
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0140442106
- Access: Members
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
With a blade sharpened by irony and insight, Beyond Good and Evil tears through the comfortable illusions of morality, truth, and human greatness. In this audacious philosophical voyage, the reader is invited to abandon inherited certainties and peer into the abyss of power, instinct, and will. Is our conscience a noble guide—or a cage built by forgotten tyrants of thought? With lightning-bolt aphorisms and searing clarity, this work dares us to rethink the foundations of justice, virtue, and even the self. It is not a map, but a mirror—reflecting who we are, and who we might become when we step beyond the veil of good and evil.
- Originally Published: 1886
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
- Genre: Philosophy
- Pages: 230
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0521779135
- Access: Members
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Meditations
Alone beneath the stars, an emperor writes—not to command legions, but to steady his own soul. Meditations is a quiet thunder, a journal of inner battles fought in the hush of thought, where pride and grief, power and impermanence wrestle for mastery. What does it mean to govern the world, yet struggle to govern the self? With luminous simplicity and unflinching honesty, this work invites the reader not into a story, but into a lifelong discipline—of seeing clearly, accepting fully, and acting justly. It is less a book to be read than a mirror held up to the trembling heart of anyone who seeks to live with meaning.
- Originally Published: 161-180 CE
- Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006
- Genre: Non-fiction, Philosophy
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0140449334
- Access: Members