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“Alright, I'll do it; I wrote a whole book about this, you know? I did a book called 'Lives with the Stoics' which is bios of each of the Stoics.”
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“I did this book a few years ago called Lives of the Stoics, where instead of diving into what the stoics said, I just tried to write biographies of who they were.”
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“Two days later, one year later, I started Lives; like I realized I was sort of almost unconsciously on a schedule of starting a book on this day five years in a row. Wow.”
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“I tell a story in my book, 'Lives of the Stoics,' about a Stoic philosopher named Diotimus. The Epicureans and Stoics were rival schools: opposites, really.”
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“so ryan holiday's new book uh the lives of the stoics which is coming through is the first pdf i've ever got ever in history which is named the title of the thing that it is every other pdf that i get which is sent through with a non-disclosure agreement saying you can't fold this on”