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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180 C.E.) was a great leader and stoic philosopher whose words ring as true today as they did during his short tenure of antiquity. He served as the 16th Roman Emperor ...
Translated by GEORGE LONG. London : Bell & Daldy. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. DULNESS is usually reckoned the prescriptive right of kings; at least, they are supposed to be officially incapable of ...
Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill, who, in On Liberty (1859) ...
The second-century A.D. world of Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in shambles. A great plague ravaged western Europe, as he embarked on a long and bloody war against the Germanic tribes along the Danube ...
The Stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, as written in Meditations, teaches us to stay calm, act with integrity, and serve ...
The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled from 161 to 180 A.D. and has maintained the reputation for being the ideal wise leader whom Plato called a "philosopher king." His book "Meditations" has ...
This equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is one of only two surviving bronze statues of a pre-Christian Roman emperor. Source: Pixabay/StevoLeBlanc Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence ...