Stoic WisdomStoic wisdom: the Meditations
The notes of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, with topics, a daily reading and plain guides to Stoicism.
Today\'s reading
By topic
- The morning: starting the day
- Anger and other people's faults
- Death and the shortness of life
- Opinion, judgement and what disturbs us
- Calm of mind
- Duty and work
By book
- Book 1 17 sections
- Book 2 17 sections
- Book 3 16 sections
- Book 4 51 sections
- Book 5 36 sections
- Book 6 59 sections
- Book 7 75 sections
- Book 8 61 sections
- Book 9 42 sections
- Book 10 38 sections
- Book 11 39 sections
- Book 12 36 sections
Guides
Questions people ask
Who wrote the Meditations?
The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, in Greek, in his last years. He wrote them for himself.
Is the translation free to use?
Long\'s translation of 1862 is in the public domain.
The text is George Long\'s English translation of 1862, in the public domain, and its old-fashioned English ("thou", "thy") is unchanged. The notes beside it are our own wording. Marcus Aurelius wrote these for himself; they are a diary, not a book of rules.