How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

4: THE CHOICE OF HERCULES

1. Historia Augusta.

2. Meditations, 1.17.

3. Lucian, Philosophies for Sale.

4. Discourses, 1.16 (slightly modified).

5. Meditations, 7.3.

6. Fronto, Letters, in Meditations (trans. Hard), 16.

7. Meditations, 11.22.

8. Meditations, 3.16; 7.68.

9. Meditations, 10.12.

10. Meditations, 9.16.

11. Meditations, 6.7.

12. Meditations, 7.28; 6.48; 7.27.

13. Meditations, 3.16.

14. Meditations, 10.33.

15. Meditations, 8.2.

16. Baudouin and Lestchinsky, The Inner Discipline, 48.

17. Meditations, 10.29.

18. Meditations, 11.2.

19. Meditations, 6.13.

20. Meditations, 6.13.

21. Meditations, 1.17.

22. Meditations, 6.13.

23. Meditations, 8.39.