“Concentrate every minute like a Roman— like a man— on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can— if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your lif...
Marcus Aurelius' Stoicism rightly emphasizes the fleeting nature of life, but leaves the Stoics grimly focused on moral living for no apparent purpose other than "the common good." While Marcus Aurelius has many great insights into the nature of life(perhaps some of the greatest insights a non-beli...
This book had been Listed between 100 Life changing books Reading Nietzsche make you hate Stoics Innately , I have shaped Stoics thought before this book , its a combination between philosophy schools and religion of that period , Here with Marcus Aurelius Stoics made interesting and close to our da...
This was my second book on Stoicism after Seneca's teachings. My thoughts? it was a rather humbling experience to know that a better human being once lived knowing more than you have, achieved milestones of personal discovery than you could ever imagine achieving and all that with a healthy doze of ...
No wonder this book is still around. It is easy to follow and to understand. Usually, primary sources for philosophy are too complex for me to understand, but not this one. Marcus Aurelius has a core set of beliefs and explains them for the non student of philosophy. I would recommend this book for ...
I can have a pretty antagonistic relationship with philosophy, tending as it does to waffle on in circles about vague abstractions, or repeating itself into redundancy. I took a philosophy in and of literature course in college and had to restrain myself from violence with each comparison of anythin...
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