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Meditations : A Roman Emperor's Private Notebook on How to Live, Written for No One But Himself - Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

A Roman Emperor's Private Notebook on How to Live, Written for No One But Himself

By: Marcus Aurelius

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Between military campaigns on the northern frontier, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius kept a private notebook — reminders to himself on how to face anger, loss, ambition, and mortality with clear-eyed calm. He never meant it for publication. Two thousand years later, it remains one of the most practical books on living well ever written. The foundational text of Stoic philosophy, in a clear modern translation — as relevant to anyone facing pressure, uncertainty, or grief today as it was to the man who ran an empire while writing it by candlelight.

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