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Meditations (Paperback)
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Meditations (Paperback)
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Marcus Aurelius was Emperor of Rome from 121 to 180. Marcus
Aurelius believed that human happiness arises in part from man's
acceptance of his duties and responsibilities. He believed that one
should accept calmly what cannot be avoided and perform one's
duties as well as possible. From the introduction " By the irony of
fate this man, so gentle and good, so desirous of quiet joys and a
mind free from care, was set at the head of the Roman Empire when
great dangers threatened from east and west. For several years he
himself commanded his armies in chief. In camp before the Quadi he
dates the first book of his Meditations, and shows how he could
retire within himself amid the coarse clangour of arms. The pomps
and glories which he despised were all his; what to most men is an
ambition or a dream, to him was a round of weary tasks which
nothing but the stern sense of duty could carry him through. And he
did his work well. His wars were slow and tedious, but successful.
With a statesman's wisdom he foresaw the danger to Rome of the
barbarian hordes from the north, and took measures to meet it. As
it was, his settlement gave two centuries of respite to the Roman
Empire; had he fulfilled the plan of pushing the imperial frontiers
to the Elbe, which seems to have been in his mind, much more might
have been accomplished. But death cut short his designs."
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