Re: Talk About a Philosopher
arshad- thank you for your post! marcus was actually the first philosopher we studied from the text! his set of four principles: wisdom, justice, fortitude, and temperance are so interesting to study and quite useful to apply! oh and his private journal..i'm not sure what the published title is..it's a collection of 12 books, about lessons he learned in his life. i think it would be a very interesting read if one wants to learn about it! Things Written to Himself might be the title, actually.
ya know, the guy had a pretty rough life for loosing his babies and his wife...so a lot of his philosophy is based off of mortality. quote: "*If you want to stop wasting your time in vain fantasies, perform every act in life as though it is your last." *alright, and one more thing i will add, one of my favorite quotes from him: "*Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than its is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." *another hint of mortal philosophy here!