- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (16 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192839071
- ISBN-13: 978-0192839077
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 976,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work. In this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader. A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included.
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119 of 122 people found the following review helpful
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The style is direct and unpretentious. The message is simple but extraordinarily powerful: life is short, the past and the future are inaccessible, pain and pleasure have no meaning, but inside each one of us there is a ruling faculty that is touched only by itself. Only that which makes us better capable of confronting our condition with resolution and courage can be said to be good, and only that which makes us worse and more unsatisfied can be said to be bad. The only thing that is of any importance is our own private quest for perfection, which no external power can ever destroy. Marcus Aurelius delivers many insightful and inspirational observations about human nature and the human condition, and he makes an excellent rational argument for seeking the good and for acting modestly and continently. I cannot think or a more satifying and moving work, and it is all the more poignant because it was written by a man who wielded almost absolute power and lived surrounded by the luxury, yet managed to keep things in perspective and to occupy himself only with what truly matters. One sentence captures perfectly the spirit of his writings: "Where a man can live, there he can also live well." An extraordinary testimony of wisdom and fortitude.
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21 Feb 2008
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Book 2, paragraph 7: "Do things from outside break in to distract you? Give yourself a time of quiet to learn some new good thing and cease to wander out of your course. But, when you have done that, be on your guard against a second kind of wandering. For those who are sick to death in life, with no mark on which they direct every impulse or in general every imagination, are triflers, not in words only but also in their deeds."
One long look at the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome - discovered intact in the Tiber 1700 years after his death - shows you a man too wise, too humane, and too busy to found another mystery-cult religion. Thankfully.
One long look at the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome - discovered intact in the Tiber 1700 years after his death - shows you a man too wise, too humane, and too busy to found another mystery-cult religion. Thankfully.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Fascinating
30 April 2000
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I have been reading this book now off and on for over a year and have finally finnished it. Marcus' thoughts on "the whole" and nature are fascinating. One of my favorite passages was when he said that Caesar's brilliant oratory used simple words which were straight to the point "like the blast of a trumpet, not the trill of a flute."
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Excellent translation, excellent notes
18 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
This is an amazing book, a window into the mind of a 1st Century Roman. It's a day book of thoughts of a Roman emperor written in Greek nearly 2000 years ago. Marcus grapples with spiritual issues, philosphical and some immediate conerns. There are many references to Greek philosophers and Greek literature. The Oxford World's Classics edition, translated by A.S.L. Farquharson is immensely englightened by R.B Rutherford's notes. The notes, never intrusive, provide much needed philosphical and historical context.
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