WARD FARNSWORTH

The Practicing Stoic is a book about human nature and its management. The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics. Their insights have long been hard to see as a whole because they are spread over a wide range sources that are two thousand years old. This book brings together the most valuable of the Stoic teachings in one place for the first time. It presents the original words of the Stoics in freshly revised translations, organizes them in an intuitive way for the modern reader, and surrounds them with commentary that makes their meaning clear. It is a perfect book for the newcomer to Stoicism, and an indispensable reference for anyone with an interest in the subject... Abraham Lincoln wrote more beautifully and memorably than anyone in public life does now. So did Winston Churchill; so did Edmund Burke; so did many others, none of whom sound quite alike but all of whom achieved an eloquence that seems foreign to our..

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