Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius · Parragon
Private notebooks a Roman emperor wrote to himself on duty, mortality, anger, and self-control. Reading them gives a first-hand view of Stoic practice as applied ethics rather than theory, and a sense of how Stoics reasoned through daily difficulty.
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Meditations
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius's personal philosophical reflections on Stoic philosophy, virtue, mortality, and living according to nature.
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