Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

William Henry Denham Rouse

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Gregory Hays

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Francis Hutcheson and James Moor.

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At least we have a consensus, or any explanation as to why they're good.

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I have only read the Hays and I enjoyed it. It is written simply and carries the passages meaning clearly. No superfluous language.

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WHDR is the taught translation.

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Penguin Classics.

Hays.

Don't expect it to change your life. Marcus was kind of a twat, that's why he had to write all these little reminders to himself.

I've read this book three times from cover to cover over the course of last week. There is a lot to grasp, but only if you see through what's he talking about. There is nothing like it, although its found in traces all over the Western philosophy. Schopenhauer's Representation of Will was for me equally important book, certainly one of human masterpieces.

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leave plebs noise at the plebs level, noise like this, OP

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You shouldn't go into anything with such expectations to be fair and this book is too well memed on this board as it is, its quite a miracle that I resisted the urge to look too much into it or was closed to its message. Also its too often recommended considering the vast amount of other literature, I suspect its because of its aesthetics and the fact that it was written by the emperor.

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Robin Hard IMO

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Did it get easier to read and comprehend?

>>9235046
Penguin, they're all the same

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Just skimmed through it.

Meh. A big bunch of platitudes. Ruminations of a man so far in his own head he had to write shit down to exorcize the demon of thought.

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I don't have an appropriate reaction pic for that amount of insecure overthinking, pointless rationalizing and mental deficiency. Kill yourself.