 | Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Classics) by Seneca
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £3.55 Lessons in life from a Stoic master.
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 | Discourse on Method and Related Writings (Penguin Classics) by Rene Descartes
Buy new: £4.55 / Used from: £1.96 Descartes' message: think for yourself. A far more enjoyable read than the title suggests!
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 | Ethics (Penguin Classics) by Benedict Spinoza
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £6.14 A difficult work, but ultimately a great joy and worth the effort: as his admirer G.Eliot knew, Spinoza will give you immensely powerful tools for understanding of self and others.
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 | The Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £9.18 / Used from: £7.57 One of the most enjoyable philosophers to read, and one of the greatest critics of false values; Kaufmann's introduction and prefaces will assist neophytes.
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 | Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Buy used from: £1.66 One of those books that countless people carry around in an inside pocket or handbag. Magnificent passages on love and solitude.
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 | Summer in Algiers (Pocket Penguins 70's) by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £0.01 Camus' joyful side: a lesson in how to live from the inhabitants of Algiers.
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 | The Fear of Freedom (Routledge Classics) by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £6.89 An inquiry into our incapacity to be free, and a call for us to become freer, and saner.
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 | Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome 1950-1966 by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Buy new: £18.45 / Used from: £13.58 How to live - and not just exist - with very little.
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 | How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.28 De Botton knows a few classics are worth all the self-help books in existence, and demonstrates this with reference to Proust. Read De Botton, then read Proust!
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 | Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £4.74 An anthology of poems that help us to live. We need to make time for poetry, i.e. for contemplation. There is a sequel: "Being alive".
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