Lives of the Stoics

Key takeaways:

- Action is important. It's not enough to know/say what is right, you must actually live it.
- A few bad actions are enough to wipe out a lifetime of virtue.
- Contemplate your own mortality.
- Wealth/poverty, health/sickness, pleasure/pain: none of these are inherently good or bad on their own.
- Virtue seemed to be a resonating theme as the most important thing to pursue.

The short bios in this book are interesting historically and also philosophically. I enjoyed how accessible the writers made the material.

This book set me off in search of more information about these people, and I enjoyed that as well.

Treatment of each person was not consistent, and that frustrated me a bit.