What is the best book that is basically written directly as advice

Nicomachean Ethics

>>9087585
depends of what you want to achieve.
the enchiridion is the starting strength of practical philosophy

>>9087585
Candide.

>>9087585
my diary

>>9087585
Meditations.

The Art of Worldy Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian is probably the best I've encountered so far

>>9087585
the bible?

>nobody posted Ulysses
/lit/ everi tiem

>>9087630

More like Uselesses

Fag author for fags

>>9087623
The Bible is a collection of history books and meditative poems, you craptastic mental retard.

>>9087630
> when in doubt
> post about Ulysses
Freshmen tards everi tiem

the prince

>>9087623
This, but only NT

No better role model than Jesus Christ.

>>9088086
He was kind of a c*** though.

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>>9087596

Notes From The Underground.

>>9088102
Literally how?

Jesus was the opposite of a cunt

Maybe you're thinking of YHWH?

>>9088102

Lazarus's sister was the cunt in that situation

Yourcenar's Mémoires d'Hadrien, although the tone isn't didactic or anything.

>>9087585
Siddhartha

>>9087585
>advice on how to live
You sound Spook'd

Stoner

The Apology.

i've never read these books but i have them and i know little about them but i think its
meditation
thus spoke zarathustra
the myth of sisifus

>>9087592
This

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>>9087585
All Dostoyevsky

>>9088244
I've been waiting for that (you) dafuq /lit/ what took you so long?

>>9088215

elaborate please

only thing I learnt was to not go for the quiet ones

>>9088265
Here have another

I reread Candide every six months or so

>>9088265
>>9088271
what is candide about

>>9088275
The quickest way?
>Most philosophers are full of shit.
>Happiness is contentedness and contentedness is largely what you make of it.
It's also short and humorous so just buy it and read it.

>>9088290
>>9088275
I read it in an afternoon. For me it's
>do anything you want it'll be fine

Reminds me of Forrest Gump

>>9088125
This

Also i really liked siddhartha by hesse, have yet to read other hesse works

>>9087592
This book was terrible

>>9088316
Fact check: false

>>9087585
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang. The Chinese title literally translates to The Art of Living- IIRC he says something about western readers needing to be told that living well is actually important as well as how to do it.

>>9088125
This

>>9087585
The Alchemist

>>9087585
Enchirideon by Epictetus

>>9088316
Why? Even though this is a troll, why?

>>9087585
Mein Kampf

Blood Meridian

>>9087592
>be forrest gump

>>9088270
I think following someone throughout their entire life had a strong effect on me.
It was really eye-opening to watch someone relatable become old and then to die.
Reminds you and forces you to look at the fact that that's going to happen to you in some way or another.
And it serves as kind of a guide of what not to do at times. To see what made Willy truly happy vs all the things he did for society that made him miserable

>>9088290
I heard it is a humorous reply to Leibniz's philosophy. Should I have previous knowledge about his work before reading it or can I dive in no probs?

>>9087585
Crito

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>>9088262
this

In Search of Lost Time
The Ego and its Own
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

>>9087585
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the best self-help book ever written, same thing applies to Human, all Too Human.

>>9088985
Nah it's a fictional novella simple to jump into. Reads like a parable