What’s right? How should I live? What’s the meaning of all this?

These are the timeless questions. The questions that every generation has wrestled with in their own way. You have, and at some point, your kids will.

Fortunately, the answer comes to us, as it often does, from an ancient prescription. “The goal of life is to live in harmony with nature,” Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, wrote*,* “which means to live according to virtue, because nature leads us to virtue.” He then said that virtue is comprised of four components that are “inseparable but yet distinct and different from one another.”

Courage.

Temperance.

Justice.

Wisdom.

Over the past five years, we’ve been exploring each of these virtues through the Stoic Virtues series, showing you what it means to apply these ancient ideals in our modern world today—and the benefit they can provide to your life when you do. With the upcoming release of Wisdom Takes Work, the fourth and final book of the series, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: a limited collector’s edition set of all four books signed and numbered, with a title page identifying these books as part of the only printing of this series (grab it here!). As Zeno said, these virtues are distinct and different from one another, as showcased by the four individual books, but also inseparable from one another too, which is the whole idea behind the box set.

It wasn’t only the Stoics who saw these virtues as fundamental to the good life. In fact, you may have heard them referenced before as the “cardinal virtues”—four near-universal ideals adopted by Christianity and most of Western philosophy, but equally valued in Buddhism, Hinduism, and just about every other philosophy you can imagine. They’re called “cardinal,” C. S. Lewis pointed out, not because they come down from church authorities but because they originate from the Latin cardo, or hinge.

It’s pivotal stuff. It’s the stuff that the door to the good life hangs on.

Like the Cardinal directions, the four main points on the compass—north, south, east, west—the four virtues are a kind of compass. A guide to what to do, who to be, how to behave, how to respond in every situation.

As a parent, you must not only use this compass, but give it to your children to use as well.  You have to model these virtues, and teach them—by example and by instruction—how they can too. Their life…and the future hinges on it. So memorize those four virtues. Act on them. Live them. And keep them close to your heart always.

P.S. Virtue isn’t just a compass—it’s also a craft. Something that needs our consistent work and investment.

For the first time, the Stoic Virtues collector’s edition box set gives you these timeless keys to living your best life all together—a reminder of Zeno’s advice that these four virtues are “inseparable but yet distinct and different from one another.”

PLUS, as part of your limited edition collector’s set preorder, we’re including one of the notecards Ryan Holiday used while writing the series.

You’ll also receive these preorder bonuses too:

• Early access to the introduction of Wisdom Takes Work
• Two BONUS chapters
• An extended, annotated bibliography of the books that went into the making of Wisdom Takes Work
• The Spotify playlist of the songs Ryan listened to while writing the book

We were only able to publish a very limited number of these and so make sure to act now—once they’re gone, they’re gone.

Just head to dailystoic.com/stoicvirtues to learn more and secure your Stoic Virtues collector’s edition set today.