Meditations

Marcus Aurelius's private philosophical journal — written in Greek to himself during military campaigns — never intended for publication — which is now the most read Stoic text and one of the most read philosophy books in history.

Demonstrates Stoic practice as a daily discipline of remembrance — the most powerful Roman in the world needed to remind himself every morning that he was mortal, that external goods were indifferent, and that the only good was the virtuous use of his rational faculty — making the Meditations a document of philosophical struggle, not philosophical achievement.