Meditations

This is not to say that the Meditations has no unity or no relationship to Marcus’s own life, for it has both. Neither trait surprises in the author of the Meditations or a student of Fronto, whose extant letters place great stress on the quest for the mot juste. The gods live forever and yet they don’t seem annoyed at having to put up with human beings and their behavior throughout eternity. Or understanding individual things—their nature and substance, their place in the world, their life span, their composition, who can possess them, whose they are to give and to receive?