Meditations

<B>Discover Marcus Aurelius’s <I>Meditations</I> with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.’s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning <I>Meditations </I>special edition features sprayed edges, color end pages, a built-in ribbon bookmark, and embossed foil cover. The beautiful design and attention to detail set this special edition book apart, whether you’re reading for the first time or building a library of your favorite Stoic philosophy books.</B><BR/>  <BR/><I>Unhappy am I, because this has happened to me—Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future. For such a thing as this might have happened to every man; but every man would not have continued free from pain on such an occasion. Why then is that rather a misfortune than this a good fortune?</I><BR/> —Book IV, 49<BR/><BR/><I>Meditations </I>is a collection of personal writings<a>, ruminations, and reflections</a> by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, composed during his reign from AD 161 to 180. Though not formally published during his lifetime, these reflections on <a>Stoic philosophy</a> and the nature of existence have since been compiled into one of the most influential works of ancient philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author's philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the philosopher-king, who must enforce the law and administer justice while looking beyond politics to the cosmic vantage point from which the tribulations of politics come to seem trivial. <DIV><DIV><DIV>   </DIV></DIV></DIV>