Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Plan for Living -- Part One The Rise of Stoicism -- One Philosophy Takes an Interest in Life -- Two The First Stoics -- Three Roman Stoicism -- Part Two Stoic Psychological Techniques -- Four Negative Visualization: What's the Worst That Can Happen? -- Five The Dichotomy of Control: On Becoming Invincible -- Six Fatalism: Letting Go of the Past … and the Present -- Seven Self-Denial: On Dealing with the Dark Side of Pleasure -- Eight Meditation: Watching Ourselves Practice Stoicism -- Part Three Stoic Advice -- Nine Duty: On Loving Mankind -- Ten Social Relations: On Dealing with Other People -- Eleven Insults: On Putting Up with Put-Downs -- Twelve Grief: On Vanquishing Tears with Reason -- Thirteen Anger: On Overcoming Anti-Joy -- Fourteen Personal Values: On Seeking Fame -- Fifteen Personal Values: On Luxurious Living -- Sixteen Exile: On Surviving a Change of Place -- Seventeen Old Age: On Being Banished to a Nursing Home -- Eighteen Dying: On a Good End to a Good Life -- Nineteen On Becoming a Stoic: Start Now and Prepare to Be Mocked -- Part Four Stoicism for Modern Lives -- Twenty The Decline of Stoicism -- Twenty-One Stoicism Reconsidered -- Twenty-Two Practicing Stoicism -- A Stoic Reading Program -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.