Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)

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And to have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful. Marcus Aurelius' work Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty and has been praised for its "exquisite accent and its infinite tenderness. Hays does a remarkable job of setting the stage, providing historical context, and offering insights that enrich the experience as a whole! He was faced with a series of invasions from German tribes, and by conflicts with the Parthian Empire in the east. Not prone to go off on tangents, or pulled in all directions, but sticking with the same old places and the same old things.

There are valuable lessons in this, some more valuable than others depending on the person, which make me glad I read it. The robe from his farm at Lorium, most of the things at Lanuvium, the way he accepted the customs agent's apology at Tusculum, etc. 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.I strongly recommend this book to anyone who feels lost in life and is looking to find the tools on how to best approach life's uncertainties and challenges as well as rise above their circumstances. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done and there is nothing new under the sun.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius , translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. And that I never lost control of myself with any of them, although I had it in me to do that, and I might have, easily.It started with random videos on YouTube, and I kept hearing about Marcus Aurelius and his stoic philosophy.