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teabrewer's review
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.0
I feel like I can't rate this book like the other books because it wasn't written to be published. This is someone's uneddited commonplace book and diary, never intended to be read by anyone other than the author himself and it reads exatly like you would expecgt from that summary. It is interesting to see how ordinary and familiar some of the passages are. There is this one specific passage, I believe it was book 3, passage 2 in my edition, where he talks about the beauty of the aged body and that felt very poetic to me. In general, though, this book it boring and repetitive. I'd not read this to learn what he was "teaching" because there are many of his opinions and views that feel antiquated and repressed (justifiably so) and it isn't a book that makes me want to read more of it (I really had to force myself at some points) but I can't say this book isn't good for it was written to be, a personal commonplace book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Mental illness
clstrifes's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
Marcus Aurelius journal inspired me to continue to be a better human and it’s heartwarming to see that a Emperor like him considers himself a philosopher first and a emperor second. There’s a lot of things that Marcus’s journal resonates with me particularly about getting up from bed and also the bees and the beehive quotes. It’s truly inspiring and insightful read and I was intimidated to read this book but I’m glad that I did.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Slavery, and Hate crime
There is talks about death and the afterlife. To those that are Atheist, keep in mind that Marcus believes in the gods and that nature, world nature, Zeus and the gods are tied to explain how the world works.alexlaurenroy's review
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
bella_mckinnon's review
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Excellent book. Incredibly comforting when my depressed mind tricks me into catastrophizing and being pessimistic about life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
alexander_'s review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death
Minor: Child death and Suicide
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