Links & Free Stoic Resources
Everything worth bookmarking: where to follow Epic Stoic, where to read the ancient Stoics for free, and where to go deeper.
Epic Stoic everywhere
The best Stoic YouTube channels
- Daily Stoic: Ryan Holiday’s channel, 2M+ subscribers
- Einzelgänger: calm, thoughtful essays on Stoicism, Taoism and Buddhism
- Pursuit of Wonder: animated philosophy and short stories
- Freedom in Thought: Stoic and ancient wisdom explained
- Academy of Ideas: philosophy and psychology lectures
- Philosophies for Life: Stoic ideas applied to everyday life
- The School of Life: philosophy for emotional intelligence
- Sisyphus 55: book-based deep dives into philosophy
- Orion Philosophy: philosophers explained
- Modern Stoicism: talks from Stoicon and Stoic Week
Websites, newsletters and podcasts
- Daily Stoic: daily emails and articles
- The Daily Stoic podcast
- Modern Stoicism: home of Stoic Week and Stoicon
- Figs in Winter: Massimo Pigliucci’s newsletter
- Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life: Donald J. Robertson’s newsletter
- Donald J. Robertson’s website
- The Stoic Fellowship: find a Stoic meetup near you
- r/Stoicism: the Stoicism community on Reddit
- Philosophize This!: the philosophy podcast
Read the Stoics free (public-domain translations)
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Project Gutenberg)
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, George Long translation (Standard Ebooks, beautifully formatted)
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (MIT Internet Classics Archive)
- Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts, Long translation (Wikisource)
- Seneca, Letters to Lucilius (Wikisource, Gummere translation)
- Seneca, Dialogues, including On the Shortness of Life (Standard Ebooks)
- Epictetus, Discourses and Enchiridion (Project Gutenberg, Long translation)
- Epictetus, Short Works (Standard Ebooks)
- Epictetus, The Golden Sayings (Project Gutenberg)
- Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book 7 on the Stoics (Project Gutenberg)
- StoicSource: the Stoic texts, searchable online
- Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Latin originals with translations
Learn more
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Stoicism
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Stoicism
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: Stoicism
- World History Encyclopedia: Stoicism
- Wikipedia: Stoicism