Description
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written, with a straightforward and intimate style. These writings take the form of quotations, advices for a self guidance and improvement that vary in length: some are just one sentence, others may take long paragraphs.
Marcus Aurelius was a learned Roman Emperor and a practitioner of Stoicism.
His death is considered to be the end of the Pax Romana period and the beginning of the fall of Roman Empire.