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Alone with myself. Reflections

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Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180) justly earned the nickname "the philosopher on the throne." "The time of human life is a moment. Its essence is an eternal flow. The sensation is vague. The body is perishable. The soul is unstable. Fate is mysterious, Fame is unreliable.... Life is struggle and wandering in foreign lands. Posthumous glory is oblivion. But what can lead the way...? Nothing but philosophy," are the words of both a sage and a ruler. Self-discipline, equanimity and courage not only helped Marcus Aurelius cope with disappointment in life and painful loneliness, but allowed to give a complete form to the teachings of the Stoics and become the most influential of the philosophers of ancient Rome. Not possessing a warlike character, Marcus Aurelius had to spend his life in military campaigns. He wrote his "Meditations" in a camp tent, tormented by a severe illness. This book is also known as "Alone with Myself" (According to his physician, the famous Galen, the last words of the emperor were: "It seems that today I will be alone with myself"). Although Marcus Aurelius, like many of his contemporaries, had a negative attitude towards Christians and encouraged persecution of them, his ethical views, ideas about the mind and soul, were close to the Teachers of the Church and influenced Christian thinkers from Blessed Jerome to Leo Tolstoy.
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