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Meditations is what immediately came to my mind also. It's a humbling and reassuring look into the mind of a great leader and stoic; to know that there was this
by taberiand 8y ago
Meditations is what immediately came to my mind also. It's a humbling and reassuring look into the mind of a great leader and stoic; to know that there was this man, the most powerful in his time, who strived - and struggled - to be the best he could, is inspiring.
- HNLurker2 8y agoAre we really going that low to take beliefs from WER (white, educated, rich) people? I mean wasn't Seneca the rich man during that time? And also Marcus Aurelius book doesn't seem appealing to read because it was never meant to be published.
- englishrookie 8y agoAbout the 'white' part: the Roman empire apparently did not categorize people based on something as superficial as their skin color: "physiognomy did not function as a criterion of social status in the Roman system of stratification". [1] [1] https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/thompson.html https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ElAnt/V1N4/thompson.htm...