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Personal notes that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in Greek, probably between 170 and 180 AD, as guidance for himself. Spread across twelve books with no clear chronological order, they reflect from a Stoic standpoint on death, duty, the way we judge things and keeping one's emotions in check. Everything suggests he never meant them to be published.

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For readers who want an approach to Stoicism through a short text that can be opened at any page: the notes run from a single sentence to several paragraphs, in a plain, direct style.
Why people still read it
It survives thanks to two manuscripts and has been in print since the sixteenth century, in many translations. Gilbert Murray compared it to the Confessions of Augustine and of Rousseau, and readers as different as former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao and Bill Clinton have named it among their favourite books.

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