false <![CDATA[Meditations (Penguin Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168080018m/30659.jpg 30659 51 The emperor Marcus Aurelius, the proverbial philosopher-king, produced in Greek a Roman manual of piety, the Meditations, whose impact has been felt for ages since. Here, for our age, is his great work presented in its entirety, strongly introduced and freshly, elegantly translated. 31010 book 1963 The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius total:1470|5:610|4:523|3:262|2:65|1:10| 1470 6068 2516 192 4 6 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:34:17 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 13:57:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Dec 03 14:07:59 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 17:40:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 4 false false Sat Aug 18 23:23:19 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 15:39:02 -0700 2007
The only reason that this was preserved in the first place is that the author happened to be a Roman emperor. (That, and that ancient Rome didn't have LiveJournal.)

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From book 5, 22 - This reminded me of Hurricane Catrina and our failure in New Orleans.
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not something that you can read in a day, and for all of those "i am a fast reader" people out there, slow down and actually understand what you are reading. marcus' philosophi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 15:06:43 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 15:08:36 -0700 2009 Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, written by this wise Roman Emperor, is very flowing, personable, and readable, almost like a personal letter in tone, easy to understand as a man’s journal and thoughts for himself. Reading it makes me wish that I could have sat in Aurelius’s p...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 27 11:33:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 16:54:21 -0700 2009 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations is a book that doesn't age.

Written almost two millennia ago, it is today just as relevant as in the times of Roman splendor it was written.

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"Every hour of the day give vigorous attention, as a Roman and as a man, to the performance of the task in hand with precise analysis, with u...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Apr 03 13:47:57 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 04:19:52 -0700 2008
Virtue is its own reward.

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