Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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The Daily Stoic

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  • Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations that 'you can commit an injustice by doing nothing also' β€” a self-damning admission given Rome's slave society
  • Marcus Aurelius credits Antoninus as his model in Meditations Book 6.30, listing traits including gentleness, modesty, decisiveness, and tolerance of criticism.
  • Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations 5:20 that the mind converts any obstacle to action into a means of achieving its purpose.
  • According to Gregory Hays' translation of Meditations, when people obstruct our tasks, they become as irrelevant as the sun or wind.
  • Pierre Hadot's The Inner Citadel The ref-book-meditations:Meditations:Meditations of Marcus Aurelius explores the Stoic art of turning obstacles upside down to our advantage.

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