Alone with myself. Maksima. Aurelius M.

self-discipline, composure, courage not only helped the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonin (121-180), or, as the descendants called him, the “philosopher on the throne”, cope with the hardships of camping life, rejection of the war and the torment of loneliness, but allowed him to allow him Give the finished form to the teachings of the Stoics and become the most influential of the philosophers of ancient Rome.

He, the ancient Roman ruler, the enemy - and albeit relatively moderate, but still a consistent persecutor, Christians, became one of the most cited authors for teachers and had an influence on all Christian thinkers from the Blessed Jerome to L N. Tolstoy.