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Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hays - translator, Evi O Studio
Narrated by: Roger Davis
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How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today.

Few ancient works have been as influential as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Filled with wisdom, practical guidance and profound understanding of human behaviour, it remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus' insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others - have made the Meditations required listening for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary listeners have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style.

In Gregory Hays' translation, Marcus' thoughts speak with a new immediacy. Never before have Marcus' insights been so directly and powerfully presented.

Public Domain (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group Ethics & Morality Philosophy Stoicism

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Critic reviews

"Refreshing and restorative." (Guardian)

"An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful reminder of how we could live a more dignified life by avoiding deceit, vanity and greed."(OK magazine)
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This particular version is the definitive version of Marcus Aurelius Meditations. I’ve tried other versions that were from the Shakespeare era and simply misses many of the points of Marcus’s writings. Simply sublime.

Greatest book ever written

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The reading speed is crazy fast for this kind of material, the narrator makes no pauses between sentences. Considering that a lot of the paasages are very short, it becomes a bit difficult to comprehend.

Eternal stoic wisdom but the narrator rushes

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I really enjoyed the content, but I'm sorry to say, the reader sounds like an AI bot. I found it a bit distracting at first but eventually got used to it.

Really good content, robotic reading.

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I have listened to other translations of Meditations. I enjoyed listening to this translation. It's presented in clear modern English. The audition is clear with the appropriate pace. I highly recommend this audio book.

Excellent translation

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Narrator is difficult to listen too. informal spoken like poetry rather than prose. Prose should flow like a river, obviously not faulting the author, he is sublime. Rather difficult to follow at times.

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It's a good read, I'd definitely recommend to anyone, as the writer says in the introduction, it's a defensive philosophy to life. The format doesn't allow you to get lost in the amazing world of details that help emphasise a point, but that is of no fault of the writer, this was merely how Marcus wrote it. It's quite repetitive, goes over the same 3 or 4 points for the entirety of the book, just explained in different ways

Good, but quite repetitive over the same few pointd

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This entire book is just a really long list of ways to think and behave.
I found it a tedious listen and far too much talk about Gods and how certain they are that they exist, which I found galling.
The number of times it was said that if it didn't happen then nature didn't intend it to happen, the Gods can't have made such an oversight. Really?
There were some nuggets of wisdom but I almost missed them due to the chaffing of the previous bold assertions made.
Luckily it is not a very long book or I wouldn't have gotten through it.
I won't be recommending this book to anyone.

Too much talk about God's and fate

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