Do not discuss in general terms the question of what is a good man. Be one. Book X, passage 16, pg. 103Hence, Marcus Aurelius put together The Meditations as a private collection. Though his contemplative nature lead him toward Stoicism, he was the adopted heir of Aurelius Antoninus and successor...
I like the fact that this man never expected anyone to read the notes he jotted down, and now, a couple of thousand years after the fact, he's the author of a very famous work!
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