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  7.8/1022 votes

  Seneca on Anger

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/2000

  Seneca believed anger flowed from our surprise when things don't turn out how we expect. Can Seneca's advice help angry van driver Wayne and stressed executive Venetia?

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  7.5/1021 votes

  Schopenhauer on Love

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/2/2000

  German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer believed that love was the most important thing in life. His philosophy explains the mystery of why we fall in love with the people we do.

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  8.1/1025 votes

  Epicurus on Happiness

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/9/2000

  Alain De Botton considers how the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus believed there were just three simple things we needed in order to be happy, and money wasn't one of them

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  8.1/1023 votes

  Montaigne on Self-Esteem

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/16/2000

  Why do so many people suffer from feelings of low self-esteem? Alain De Botton looks at the problem through the eyes of the French 16th-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne.

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  8.3/1028 votes

  Socrates on Self-Confidence

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/2000

  Alain demonstrates that ancient Athenian philosopher Socrates can help give us all the intellectual self-confidence we need to work out what we really think and believe

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  8.3/1024 votes

  Nietzsche on Hardship

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/2000

  Friedrich Nietzsche believed that any worthwhile achievements in life come from the experience of overcoming hardship, and that a comfortable, painless existence wouldn't be worth living

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