Meditations (Revised) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Marcus Aurelius Photography Rachel Mann selects a poem

Rachel Mann selects a poem and reflects on it

"A thought-provoking discussion of the truth that the most dangerous act in the world--the thing with the most lasting and least predictable consequences--is not war or revolution

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Meditations (Revised) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Marcus Aurelius Photography Rachel Mann selects a poemThe Meditations of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and indulgence, man could acquire virtue and live at one with nature. 'Here, for our age, is [Marcus's] great work presented in its entirety, strongly introduced and freshly, elegantly translated.' Robert Fagles Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born to an upper