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It's an odd source maybe, but I highly recommend Epictetus' "The Art of Living." Look for the Sharon LeBell translation. Stoic philosophy is well suited to those who are looking to find a practical warrior ideal, but like anything, there is a proper context in which to view the content. You need to keep a flexible and open mind and realize that when context changes, so does the content. That means some of the things that applied in 344 B.C. may have changed in 23 centuries. Cicero is also one of the more important sources for stoic ideals, even though he is generally seen as departing from some of the previously important parts of the overall philosophy. He often wrote about the differences between Peripateticism and Stoicism, but that's neither here nor there.
The function of Stoic philosophy was to help hone the use of reason so that we could learn to live simply in our pursuit of virtue and in accordance with natural law. Taken as a part of a whole, it's a fairly pragmatic warrior philosophy.
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