Further I think you could make the argument that the meditations works because it's not Markus Aurelius making things up on the spot. He was a careful student o

Further I think you could make the argument that the meditations works because it's not Markus Aurelius making things up on the spot. He was a careful student of philosophy and to me the charm of the book is it's the wisdom of the ancient world filtered by a man whose later life became dominated by practical affairs.