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Ancient Wisdom
Customers highly value the ancient wisdom presented in Meditations, finding it applicable and profound for daily practice and self-improvement. They appreciate the modern translation which makes the timeless insights easier to understand. Some readers wish for updated language while others find the classical writing style enriching. The book's topics on self-discipline, justice, courage, and death continue to resonate with readers today.
Readability
Customers have generally positive opinions about the readability of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Some find it clear and understandable due to the use of definitions and context clues. Others appreciate its deep insights and keep it as a personal reference. However, a few customers mention the writing style and small print as challenging.
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It is a powerful and actionable lens by which modern man can gain clarity about the chaotic events that we all deal with regularly.
They are applicable, wise and profound today, as they were 2000 years ago.
It’s *very* old, with many archaic terms and strange sentence structure.
Never get tired of rereading it over and over.
Price
Good price for a book that provides valuable insights on how to live your life.
Everything you’d expect, but with an affordable price tag.
The nice thing about this publication is it's low price.
Shipping
Love that you had it and got it to me quickly for class
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english, stoic, good, great and modern. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 10,404 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 17 2024.
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I’m sure the author would approve
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Never get tired of rereading it over and over
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To 3 historical reads with ben franklins autobiography and the art of war
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With any books from so long ago it’s a dice roll on how the translation will be
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Be patient when reading it after awhile you’ll feel like you get lost in the sentences due to some issues in translation
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The book is probably less than 150 pages but it was so dense and hard to read that it took me months to finish
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People may be offput by the references to theology in the book
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I had no idea that ma believed in god
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