How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life

5 best books like How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life (Marcus Tullius Cicero): Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Stillness Is the Key, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, If I Ran the Zoo

Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism

Author	Hans Fallada
ISBN	0141195800

'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me...

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

Author	Edward Wilson-Lee
ISBN	0008146225

Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one man’s life spent collecting every book on every subject – including antique and modern worlds, science and law, as well as playing cards, pornography, and popular music.

Who was...

Stillness Is the Key

Author	Ryan Holiday
ISBN	0525538585

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing...

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

Author

Donald J. Robertson

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual...

If I Ran the Zoo

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007169949

It’s nice to have a zany sense of humour - most of the time!

Dr. Seuss, of course, was a master of zaniness. And If I Ran the Zoo takes Zany to new limits.

In it, a little kid named McGrew dreams of turning the town zoo into a home for mythical, magical beasts - who become more and more weird...