https://bookstoic.com/authors/marcus-aurelius/Recent content in Marcus Aurelius on BookStoicHugoenSat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://bookstoic.com/books/meditations/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://bookstoic.com/books/meditations/<blockquote> <p>Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.</p> <p><cite>Marcus Aurelius, <em>Meditations</em>, II.1, trans. George Long</cite></p> </blockquote> <h2 id="what-it-is">What it is</h2> <p>Twelve books of notes that Marcus Aurelius wrote to himself during the last decade of his life, much of it on campaign on the Danube. There is no argument, no structure and no audience. He repeats himself because he is not writing a book; he is reminding himself of what he already believes on days when it is hard to believe it.</p>