Meditations
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Published: Estimated Reading Time: (1 min read) Key Points:
- Control: Focus only on what you can control—your own judgments, actions, and responses. Everything else is indifferent.
- Impermanence: All things are temporary. Fame, wealth, and even Rome itself will pass.
- Present Moment: The past is gone, the future uncertain. Only the present moment is yours.
- Duty and Service: We exist to serve others. Work is not separate from virtue—it is virtue.
- Death as Advisor: Keeping mortality in mind clarifies what matters and what doesn’t.
- Authenticity: Written for himself while leading Rome through plague and war—raw, honest, unpolished.
