some thoughts from a Roman, still pretty relevant today
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One critic on your site, said this book was "mush", which I would refute. forstater's prelude is fair enough a little moralistic, however the thoughts and emotions that are so evident in Marcus Aurelius's words, touched me deeply. he talks of the need to find inner peace, and how to find it. he offers a real alternative to dogmatic religious beliefs, saying that if you live well, you have not wasted your life. All in all I could not recommend this book highly enough. BUY it now and feel less lost.
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Potentially interesting area turned into bland mush.
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I'm not sure if Forstater translated this from the original or he used someone else's work as the basis. The whole book misses a great opportunity to comment on, explain and relate this resource to current life. To be fair the first 82 pages do try to cover this but they are far to glib and general. It would have been much more meaningful to have had an in depth discussion after each set of entries. This first part reads like a typical T.V documentary. The book fails also to explain how the meditations were chosen and why the other half were rejected.
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