Meditations
180 · 256 pages
On campaign at the Danube, Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, wrote notes reminding himself to expect rude people and to die well. He is talking himself into it, and you can hear that.
★ 7.5
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The Handbook (The Encheiridion)
125 · 40 pages
Stoicism cut down to a pocket manual: sort everything into what is up to you and what is not, stop wanting the second kind, and meet what comes without complaint.
★ 7.2
The Art of Happiness (All Writings)
270 BC · 272 pages
Pleasure is the absence of pain and fear, Epicurus taught, so want less and eat plainly. Death is nothing to us: where death is, we are not. Friendship he counted the greatest good.
★ 6.9