I recently started reading "Letters from a Stoic" [1] and I'd highly recommend it. It's a collection of letters, each a few pages long, written by Seneca. I rea

I recently started reading "Letters from a Stoic" [1] and I'd highly recommend it. It's a collection of letters, each a few pages long, written by Seneca. I read one a day and have a pen nearby as I'll typically find at least 5 useful pieces of advice or useful ways of looking at things differently. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Stoic-Epistulae-Lucilium-Classics/dp/0140442103 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Stoic-Epistulae-Lucilium-Cla... Edit: in fact the letter I read yesterday was, like the one posted here, on life. Some things I liked from it: "...death ought to be right there before the eyes of a young man just as much as an old one. [...] Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives." "To live under constraint is a misfortune, but there is no constraint to live under constraint." "Whoever has said 'I have lived' receives a windfall every day he gets up in the morning."