/lit/ - Literature

Just read pic related. Getting into philosophical literature. What's next?

Maybe because I watched Gladiator last night

Sounds like you need stoicism in your life

>hurr so deep, 420 I smoooke weed

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forgot pic

Does anyone know any good books on the virtues of public service?

Started reading this today. Has anyone here read it before? What are your opinions on it?
I've been hearing it's quite amazing. Please, share your thought.

Anyone on /lit/ read this book?

One of the more profound books I've read in my time.

Thoughts?

I've also heard Man's Search for Meaning is good.

This i guess.

I'm gonna be away this week and I plan on reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations among other things, is there anything I need to know going into it? I've had some acquaintance with the Pre-Socratics if that helps any.

Meditations
Ecleisiastes
Myth of Sisyphus

I just started reading this. Anyone read it? Gimme your thoughts on it please :D!

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer either be dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future.