Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations gathers personal reflections on judgment, adversity, responsibility and life with other people. Gregory Hays’s translation presents these Stoic exercises in direct English while preserving their compressed, reflective character.

This Modern Library edition includes an introduction to Marcus’s life, Stoic thought and the work’s lasting influence. It is a text of ethical and philosophical reflection, not a modern guided-meditation manual.