Meditations
Translated by Martin Hammond
The private notebooks of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, written in Greek largely while on military campaign, in which he reminds himself of Stoic principles for living and ruling well.
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Remember how long you have been putting this off, how many times you have been given a period of grace by the gods and not used it. It is high time now for you to understand the universe of which you are a part, and the governor of that universe of whom you constitute an emanation: and that there is a limit circumscribed to your time - if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return.
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- Finished 30 Dec 2025 · Paper