Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Maxims

The perfection of character is expressed in spending every day, as the last in life, to be alien to vanity, inaction, hypocrisy. Thus, in his “thoughts”, Marc Aurelius Antonin (121-180), a Roman emperor, who became one of the most influential thinkers of Ancient Rome. He was forced to spend his whole life in military campaigns, where he wrote his philosophical work, known as “alone with himself”.
Self -discipline, composure, courage not only helped the Roman emperor Marc Aurelius Antonin (121-180), or, as the descendants called him, the “philosopher on the throne”, cope with the hardships of camping life, rejection of war and the agony of loneliness, but also They allowed him to give the finished form the teachings of the Stoics and become the most influential of the philosophers of ancient Rome. He, the ancient Roman ruler, the opponent - albeit relatively moderate, but still a consistent persecutor, Christians, became one of the most cited authors for teachers and had an influence on all Christian thinkers from blessed Jerome to L.N. Tolstoy