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title: Meditations
author: Marcus Aurelius
isbn: 9780140449334
rating: 2
image: https://cdn.wonderfulfrog.com/images/meditations.jpeg
tags:
  - non-fiction
  - stoicism
year: 180
---

Despite the accolades this book gets from self-help authors, I found it fairly dry and hard to read at times. There are great nuggets of advice buried in between meandering, lengthy passages. Thoughts are repeated often, but I can sympathize here. It's difficult to ingrain a certain way of thinking at first blush, but hammering into one's thick skull can work sometimes.

The footnotes are a helpful addition -- even translated into modern English it can be hard to tell what Marcus is _really_ saying.

I plan to revisit the book another time in my life, but as of now I haven't gleaned much after reading so many books that base their ideas on the writings here.