Alone with myself. Reflections. Aurelius M.

The Roman Emperor Marc Aurelius Antonin (121–180) rightly earned the nickname of the "philosopher Natron." “The time of human life is a moment. Escality is an eternal course. The sensation is vague. The body is brave. The soul is unstable. Fate is mysterious, glory is unreliable... Life is the struggle and a lot of the sensitivity. Posthumous glory is oblivion. But it can also get off the fright?.. Nothing but philosophy, ”are the words of the simultaneously immunity, I ruler.

self -discipline, composure of property did not help Mark Aurelius to cope with imperial loneliness, and they replaced the finished form of the Stoic’s teachings and influential Izfilosophs of ancient Rome. Understructing a warlike character, Marcus Aurelius was forced to spend entered campaigns all his life. He regained his “thoughts” with an enforcement tent, tormented by a serious illness. This book is also known under the name “Enraged by a quarrel” (the whistling of his doctor, the famous Galen, the last words of the emperor were: “It seems that today I will be left alone with quarrels”).

Iho Mark Aurelius, like many of his contemporaries, negatively reacted the Khristians who reached the persecution of the Nano, his ethical views, the representations of the Jidosm, were close to the teachers of the Church of the Church of the whitened Jerome Dol.N. Tolstoy.