"If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything better than justice, truth, self-control, courage—it must be an extraordinary thing indeed.”
—Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics believed in Four Virtues: Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Courage.
Learning to cultivate these virtues and practice them every day represents the path we all must take to achieve a life of excellence, in every sense. Compared to these things, everything else is cheap, if not worthless.
Throughout his bestselling Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday has drawn on the fascinating stories of historical figures like Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglas to show the power of these virtues in action, demonstrating how we all can be improved by them—while simultaneously improving the world around us.
