On the last day of each month, I include a happiness suggested-reading list. (I’m fudging it a bit this month, because Saturday is always my day to post my favorite quotes.)
Here is a list of just a few of the key classic works on the subject of happiness — ones that I found particularly useful or interesting. It’s a stretch to include St. Therese’s memoir here, because it doesn’t really fit, but I couldn’t resist — I love Story of a Soul so much.
Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Cicero, On the Good Life
Epicurus, The Essential Epicurus
Plutarch, Selected Essays
Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena I and II
Seneca, Notes from a Stoic
St. Therese, Story of a Soul
Montaigne, Essays
