A splendid compilation of authors such as Lucretius, Virgil and Horace (present here for their Epicurean character) or Persio, Seneca, Epictetus, Juvenal and Marco Aurelio (representatives of Stoicism).

The wisdom of Ancient Rome includes a splendid compilation of maxims from authors such as Lucretius, Virgil and Horace (present here due to their Epicurean nature) or Persio, Seneca, Epictetus, Juvenal and Marcus Aurelius (representatives of Stoicism). The selection of passages that this book houses is guided by a kind of happy instinct: they respond fully and exclusively to the "current problems", and to the purpose of treating and healing the psychological ills of today's man: the subject gorged with anxiety aspires to be cured like someone suffering from angina pectoris or gastritis. The reader who, in effect, experiences or has experienced on some occasion that well-known restlessness will be able to find in these ancient precepts the long-awaited table of salvation for him; the one that, probably, you will not find in the premises of current psychology, nor in the helpful psychiatrist on duty, nor in fifty self-help books that you read.

It is not in any way a question of reading and turning the page, without more; it is advisable to read and understand, read over and over again, today and tomorrow, and start over. It is necessary to internalize these sentences, exulting in wisdom, until soaking up what they mean for us, since they do not aspire to "illustrate" the human being: only —and it is not a small thing— to make life more pleasant, to dispel his fear and his anguish. They try to invoke a psychic state that makes it easier for you to “dare to live with joy and passion”.