Helpful thoughts from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Helpful thoughts from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Author: Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180

Year: 1902

Foreword There have been several books of selections from the "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus." Apparently the first one to appear was that of N. Swayne, Stourport (England), no date, but probably 1811. It contains a small part only of the "Meditations." The next in point of time was that of Mary W. Tileston, first issued in Boston, 1876, and its popularity is shown by the fact that editions have been printed almost every year since. In 1888, Sara Carr Upton printed, by use of the Mergenthaler linotypes. New York, a pamphlet with selections for every day in the year. This is now so rare that it can have made but little impression on the public. Finally, Benjamin E. Smith, New York, in 1899 put forth a small volume of selections, and there the list ends. All of the above are based practically upon one idea: to give in a more or less concentrated form the entire scope of the good Emperor's thoughts. In this work, I reverse the proceedings, and make the point of view myself: that is to say, I give those thoughts which have helped me, regardless of whether they included all the kinds of advice given by Antoninus. This might, at first sight, be thought to indicate a very narro