Meditations: The Annotated Edition

মার্কাস কেন এই লেখাগুলো লিখেছিলেন?

My soul, will you ever be good, simple, single, and naked, brighter than the body that encases you?

If you had both a stepmother and a mother, you'd do your duty by your stepmother, and yet you'd constantly return to your mother. That's how you stand today in relation to the imperial court and philosophy. Return, then, at frequent intervals to philosophy and lean on it for rest. With its help, even court business seems tolerable to you, and you become tolerable while attending to it.