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Have no idea what this subreddit is but it looks like everyone is focusing on self help - haven’t seen these few mentioned:
I recommend for some enjoyable reading as well as for some perspective shifts the writings of two stoic authors from Rome;
The works of Seneca, in “Letters from a Stoic” to his disciple Lucilius - the work typically reflects on wants, desires, ambitions and some meditation upon death. Acceptance of inevitability, rejection (or better phrased an understanding) of vanities and of the trapping of greed and power. Reads like a conversation, which I found engaging, but that may be due to the translation I read
And the work of Marcus Aurelius, in his “Meditations,” a personal journal of sorts that documented his perspectives focusing on morality and man’s purpose in life and place in existence. It does focus specifically on death and accepting one’s situation, as well as the stoic concept of virtue versus vice - has some beautiful passages that certainly do provoke thought. I recommend the George Long translation, especially through Audible.
The works of Epictetus (the Enchiridion) I found much more difficult to read or take seriously - it was more of a proclamation than a dialogue that you have in the above listed works.
A modern compilation of the different works into different chapters focusing on different topics (greed, lust, anger, sorrow, death, love) is the “Practicing Stoic,” perhaps the most accessible of the ones listed featuring components of their works in a more catalogued way