A review by ericj
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

Looking back at a couple excerpts I saved, it appears that I had two big takeaways:

1. Most things in life haven't been going as people have hoped for for thousands of years. Marc writes:

...be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

2. Marc must've really liked eating or, at the very least, he found a pleasant tease in observing bread, writing:

We ought to observe also that even the things which follow after the things which are produced according to nature contain something pleasing and attractive. For instance, when bread is baked some parts are split at the surface, and these parts which thus open, and have a certain fashion contrary to the purpose of the baker's art, are beautiful in a manner, and in a peculiar way excite a desire for eating.

...and for these meditations, 4.5 stars.