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

5: GRASPING THE NETTLE

1. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 72.34.

2. Meditations, 1.17.

3. Fronto to Marcus, Letter 9.

4. Fronto to Marcus, Letter 22.

5. Marcus to Fronto, Letter 8.

6. Meditations, 1.17.

7. Meditations, 3.7; 1.9.

8. Meditations, 1.15.

9. Meditations, 1.16; 6.30.

10. Epicurus, quoted in Meditations, 9.41.

11. Meditations, 9.41.

12. Meditations, 7.33.

13. Meditations, 7.64 (my italics).

14. Meditations, 7.64.

15. Handbook, 9.

16. Meditations, 7.43.

17. Handbook, 5.

18. Meditations, 4.39.

19. Meditations, 11.16.

20. Meditations, 5.26.

21. Meditations, 4.7.

22. Discourses, 2.1.

23. Meditations, 7.17.

24. Meditations, 10.24.

25. Discourses, 2.1.

26. Meditations, 6.13.

27. Meditations, 8.36.

28. Meditations, 11.16.

29. Meditations, 7.16; 7.14.

30. Meditations, 7.33.

31. Meditations, 11.16.

32. Discourses, 2.6.

33. Meditations, 5.8.

34. Teles of Megara, On Self-Sufficiency, in Diogenes the Cynic: Sayings and Anecdotes with Other Popular Moralists (2012), trans. Robin Hard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

35. Meditations, 10.28.

36. Discourses, 3.10.

37. Handbook, 10.

38. Meditations, 5.18.

39. Meditations, 10.3; well-known quote from Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Maxims and Arrows, 12.

40. P. Dubois, Self-Control and How to Secure It, trans. H. Boyd (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1909), 108–9.

41. P. Dubois, The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders: The Psychoneuroses and Their Moral Treatment (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1904), 394–95.

42. Dubois, Self-Control, 235–36.