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Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
A Roman emperor's private notebook: Marcus Aurelius on the frontier during war and plague, Stoic ideas (control, impermanence, the view from above, duty to others), 'the obstacle becomes the way', and how to read it today.
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Key idea
Prereqs: The Stoics. Next: Seneca; Therapy that works: CBT (which borrows from Stoicism). Sources: Marcus Aurelius, *Meditations* (Gregory Hays translation, 2002); Pierre Hadot, *The Inner Citadel* (1998); Daily Stoic.Next: 1. Author and setting