Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius · 180

The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, reminding himself to live with reason, duty, and equanimity. The central practical text of Stoic philosophy.

Books that mention Meditations (3)

• The Wicker-Work Woman by Anatole France: “Bergeret was re-reading the meditations of Marcus Aurelius”
• Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “the emperor Marcus Aurelius, whose Meditations amply demonstrate his deep engagement with the philosophy”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “In his Meditations, he thanks the gods, who had bestowed on him a wife so faithful, so gentle, and of such a wonderful simplicity of manners.”