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Anyone here read Marcus Aurelius's meditations? I read it and plan to re-read it again, but it'd be great if someone with a better grasp can reassure me if I understood the book correctly.
What I understood from the book is:
>live according to nature and with virtue
>be indifferent to things that are not vices or virtues
>love mankind for I am also a member of it
>help where you can for no effort is in vain
>do not let emotions cloud rational judgement
>be content with everything that happens because it was meant to
>life is good because it is well intended
>opinion and conceit only damage rational judgement
>worry not for the future for what happens is destined to happen anyway
>the world constantly changes, so worldly things are of low value
>even if the body is hurt, the soul and reason are not impaired
>only I can let external factors affect me internally
>happiness comes from living according to nature in a right world, not from a world right for me
If I missed anything else major or misinterpreted something, I'd be thankful if someone pointed it out
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>>17349495
I haven't read it for a long time, but that's about how I remember it. You should read Epictetus's Discourses and Enchiridion next; I think you'd get more out of it than rereading the Meditations.
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>>17349951
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Link a pdf of it nigger so I can read this shit faggot printed out breh.
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>>17349972
open your mouth, here comes the airplane
https://archive.org/details/TheMeditationsOfMarcusAurelius
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>>17350001
>open your mouth, here comes the airplane
mom?
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>>17349495
>life is good because it is well intended
What a crock of shit.
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>>17350152
>and then I spoonfed a newfag on the act of spoonfeeding
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>>17349951
I did read meditations by Marcus Aurelius but never this one, by what you posted it seems that it suggests you to be in control and not bend over and accept everything like throws at you, good or bad, like in meditations, that's the part I didn't like much of it.
Do you have any other recommendations? I'm very interested in this subjects.
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>>17350166
Dad?
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>>17350173
>what you posted it seems that it suggests you to be in control and not bend over and accept everything like throws at you, good or bad, like in meditations, that's the part I didn't like much of it.
No, he's a stoic also and agrees that you should accept what happens (he talks about that in some other discourses.) In this particular one he's saying you shouldn't be a slave to passion/desires. Anyway, epictetus was actually an influence on aurelius himself.
Seneca's epistles+essays and Musonius Rufus's lectures are also great stoic works
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>>17349951
>>17349959
OP here, thanks man, appreciate it.
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