A review by snowbike
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

4.0

This is a collection of Stoic philosophy. It is collected into 12 chapters, but I think it is fragments from Marcus Aurelius' "diaries" -- it has that feel. It is very interesting, but I think this edition with the ~100 page historical and philosophical context and background was especially good. This is similar in feel (but more fragmentary) than Ryan Holiday's "The Obstacle is the Way" -- but actually written by someone with amazing historical context and life experience (that is, "the last great Roman emperor" rather than a "media strategist").