Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)

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Original edition was published in and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition. Below are quotes that were particularly inspiring and also align with some of the Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life. His ability to get along with everyone: sharing his company was the highest of compliments, and the opportunity an honor for those around him.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. A difficult aspect of the book is that it's made up of scraps of Aurelius's personal accounts - hence the translations also reflect an incompleteness. You are one of several billion humans on a small planet that circles a small star in an inconsequential galaxy. Taken as a whole, it's clear the subjects that humans in a large society ponder and worry about have changed very little since Aurelius' time.Don’t read the introduction…as a new reader I find it difficult to keep reading or to simply pick up a book when I find it boring or a waste of my time. It is just a different reading experience, one that I (a new, naïve reader) was neither expecting nor wanting.

Meditations is simply a 1,800 year old journal written by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, broken into 12 books or notebooks. Using Marcus as an example of greater Stoic philosophy, he found the Stoic ethical philosophy to contain an element of " sour grapes. Marcus advises himself at one point "to stop talking about what the good man is like and just be one" (10.It was published at the instigation of Conrad Gesner and printed by his cousin Andreas Gesner at Zurich. He talks about various aspects of how one can improve their lives by straightforward and consistent action.