PagineAD 121–180 · Rome · also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180, much of it spent on military campaigns along the Danube. In private notebooks written in Greek, never meant for publication, he reminded himself how to live by Stoic principles: accept what you cannot control, act justly, and remember that life is short. Those notes, now called the Meditations, are among the most widely read books of philosophy today.
Begin with Meditations.
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Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180, much of it spent on military campaigns along the Danube. In private notebooks written in Greek, never meant for publication, he reminded himself how to live by Stoic principles: accept what you cannot control, act justly, and remember that life is short.
Meditations is usually considered Marcus Aurelius’s best-known work.
Most readers start with Meditations.
Both refer to the same writer.
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