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On the genre of Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius has intrigued me for some time. I have yet to read any of Seneca's work though but imagine that it is any bit as much quality(!).

I would like to add a candidate for the recommendation on Stoic philosophy - "Meditations by Marcus Aurelius".



Meditations disappointed me, it was so obviously never meant as a coherent whole. Just long lists of notes in more or less random order, lots of repetition, not everything intelligible, few things applicable.

I think reading a randomly selected 1/6th of Meditations gives more or less the same experience as reading all of it.


I find it great to dip into. Open at random and read a page. Like you said, it's just not meant to be read as a whole.


Meditations is great. Seneca's letters are better I think.




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