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To master anything, we must first master ourselves: our emotions, thoughts and actions. This ancient virtue of self-control is more essential than ever.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private ...
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Knowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind.
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
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We're told you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
But what if this is not true?
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Marcus Aurelius's timeless insights into human behaviour show that 2000 years on, not much has changed in the workplace and we could all do ...
Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the ...
A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsches seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This ...
Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback
As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how ...
'No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.' - Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics' unique blend of ...
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?
Slavoj Zizek has long ...
If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', the hypnotic rhythm of anapestic tetrameter, or how to change the mood ...