/lit/ - Literature

>>15030368
You just read Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, a diary where he reminds himself of Stoic teachings, where he has succeded at applying them, where he's failing, etc., all of which is evident by the repetitiveness nature of the work. It was never meant to be published.
>>15030775
>>15030797
All of this kind of responses would be informative if they put some effort. However, as it stands they're useless.
>When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but of the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness.