Ce dialogue de Marc-Aurèle avec lui-même révèle un homme qui doute et qui recherche la paix intérieure.

Pensées: Livres VII-XII

« Une excellente manière de te défendre d'eux, c'est d'éviter de leur ressembler. » VI, 6.

Pensées Pour Moi-Même

Though professing philosophy as his guide in life and following her rule, Marcus Aurelus makes no pretence to learning or wisdom for himself.

"I have learned from my grandfather Verus : the lessons of noble character and even temper.

From my father's reputation and my memory of him: modesty and manliness.

From my mother: piety and bountifulness, to keep myself not only from doing evil but even from dwelling on evil thoughts, simplicity too in diet and to be far removed from the ways of the rich.

From my mother's grandfather: not to have attended public schools but enjoyed good teachers at home, and to have learned the lesson that on things like these it is a duty to spend liberally.

From my tutor: not to become a partisan of the Green jacket or the Blue in the races, nor of Thracian or Samnite gladiators; to bear pain and be content with little; to work with my own hands, to mind my own business, and to be slow to listen to slander."

Meditation of an Emperor - The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius var kendt som filosoffen på kejsertronen, da han skrev en lang række stoiske aforismer på græsk under sine mange felttog. Aforismerne er samlet i værket Ta eis heauton (Tanker til sig selv). Hans filosofi er præget af en beskeden og værdig holdning til livets tilskikkelser. En del af hans tanker ligner kristendommens, som han i øvrigt bekæmpede. Lighederne skyldes, at også kristendommens var påvirket af stoicismen.

Tanker til sig selv

MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A. D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings. His father, Annius Verus, had held high office in Rome, and his grandfather, of the same name, had been thrice Consul. Both his parents died young, but Marcus held them in loving remembrance. On his father's death Marcus was adopted by his grandfather, the consular Annius Verus, and there was deep love between these two. On the very first page of his book Marcus gratefully declares how of his grandfather he had learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion. The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name. He advanced Marcus to equestrian rank when six years of age, and at the age of eight made him a member of the ancient Salian priesthood.

Meditations

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Sun Tzu. The Art of War

Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching

Plato. The Republic

Aristotle. The Athenian Constitution 

Marcus Aurelius. Meditations

Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince

Thomas More. Utopia

Tommaso Campanella. The City of the Sun

Francis Bacon. The New Atlantis

Thomas Paine. Common Sense

Richard Henry Lee. Lee Resolution

Thomas Jefferson. Declaration of Independence

James Madison.

- Virginia Plan

- Constitution of the United States

- Bill of Rights

- Northwest Ordinance

George Washington. President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech

Great Historical Documents of the United States:

- Federal Judiciary Act

- Marbury v. Madison

- Articles of Confederation

- Treaty of Alliance with France

- Treaty of Paris

John Stuart Mil. Utilitarianism

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto

Vladimir Lenin:

- The State and Revolution

- The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

- Vladimir Lenin To the Citizens of Russia!

- Vladimir Lenin To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants!

- Report on Peace

- Report on Land

- Decree on Abolishment of Capital Punishment

- Decree on Transfer of Power to the Soviets

- Decree on Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Government

- Decree on Elections for the Constituent Assembly

- Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers

- Decree on Transfer of Food Control to Municipalities

- Decree on an Eight-Hour Working Day

- Decree on the Right to Issue Laws

- Resolution on the Right of Sovnarkom to Issue Decrees

- Decree on Social Insurance

- Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia

- Decree on Organization of Volost Land Committees

- Decree on Transfer of Power and the Means of Production to the Toilers

- Decree Proclaiming Advertising a State Monopoly

- Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks

- Decree on Workers' Control

- Resolution on Relation of the Central Executive Committee to the Sovnarkom

- Decree on the Right to Call for Re-Elections

- Decree on Establishment of the Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution

- V. I. Lenin Note To F. E. Dzerzhinsky with a Draft of A Decree On Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries And Saboteurs

Rosa Luxemburg. Reform or Revolution

Peter Kropotkin. The Conquest of Bread

Emma Goldman. Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

Leon Trotsky. Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It

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 The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by leaders and great thinkers alike. Never intended for publication, Meditations are the personal notes born from a man who studied his unique position of power as emperor while trying to uphold inner balance in the chaotic world around him.

 Boldly challenging many of our biggest questions, Aurelius wrestles with the divided self, considering the complexities of human nature, rationality and moral virtue, affirming its place as one of the most timeless, significant works of philosophy to date.

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Poetics by Aristotle

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On Life and Death by Aristotle

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

The Eumenides by Aeschylus

The Choephori by Aeschylus

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Medea by Euripides

The Works and Days by Hesiod

The Theogony by Hesiod

The Shield of Heracles by Hesiod

The Odyssey by Homer

The Apology of Socrates by Plato

Charmides by Plato

Crito by Plato

Euthyphro by Plato

Ion by Plato

Laches by Plato

Lysis by Plato

Menexenus by Plato

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Meno by Plato

Phaedo by Plato

Critias by Plato

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