Reasons Not to Worry What Others Think Audiobook is available with Audible "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius ...

Early lessonsIn Meditations, Marcus Aurelius thanks his teacher Quintus Junius Rusticus for introducing him to the work of Stoic Epictetus, shown here in an illustration, who died around A.D. 135.

“Our life is what our thoughts make it”, said Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor who lived nearly 200 years ago opined. He said, “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your ...

In an age of marble columns and military conquests, where emperors were often more feared than revered, one man ruled not just with a sword, but with a pen—and a startling degree of self-awareness.

After the three Flavian emperors—Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian—came the “Five Good Emperors” of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and our man Marcus ...

Philosophy, he told my husband, helps us metabolize our suffering and maintain a sense of well-being. It wasn’t long until my husband was quoting Marcus Aurelius to me.

The museum provided a bill of sale from the date of its purchase that said it was buying a “Figure of a Draped Emperor (Probably Marcus Aurelius), Roman, late 2nd Century A.D., bronze.” ...