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Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The Thoughts, or Meditations, of Marcus Aurelius (121-180) are the private notebooks the Roman emperor kept for himself during his campaigns on the northern frontier, never meant for publication. Written in Greek as Stoic self-examination, they return again and again to duty, mortality, and the discipline of the mind against fortune. Eighteen centuries on they remain the most read of all Stoic texts, carried by soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary readers seeking steadiness.

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Marcus Aurelius

Ruled Rome from 161 to 180 and spent most of it at war, on the Danube frontier, dealing with plague and an attempted usurpation by a trusted general. He had been trained in Stoic philosophy from adolescence and kept a private notebook in Greek that was never meant to be published. It survived anyway.