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A mustread for fans of ancient history and philosophy. Meditations is a series of personal writings by marcus aurelius, roman emperor 161180 ce, setting forth his ideas on stoic. Marcus aurelius antoninus the roman emperor, his meditations concerning himselfe. But when the oligarchy of the thirty was in power, they sent for me and four others into the rotunda, and bade us bring leon the salaminian from salamis, as they wanted. It is a shame for the soul to be the first to give way in th. What are the best books parts of meditations by marcus. The communings with himself of marcus aurelius antoninus, translated by c. Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation.
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And indeed, if we seek platos philosopherking in the flesh we could hardly do better than marcus, the ruler of the roman empire for almost two decades and author of the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the meditations of marcus aurelius. Meditations of marcus aurelius introduction marcus aurelius meditations tr. The roman emperor marcus aurelius wrote his thoughts between 170 and 180. The main characters of this philosophy, classics story are. Meditations by marcus aurelius free at loyal books. Live in the present, be frugal and live your life in accordance with good the twothousand year old advice of marcus aurelius is still relevant today. The meditations consist of 12 books written by the roman emperor marcus aurelius. In many important ways, the reflections of marcus aurelius 121180 crystallize the philosophical wisdom of the grecoroman world. I think my favorite single passage is in chapterbook 6. The roman philosophers are not as well known or as highly regarded as. This little book was written as a diary to himself while emperor fighting a war out on the boarder of the roman empire and today this book is known to us as the meditations.
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