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A comment on Meditations.

Re:Meditations by razibog on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @06:27PM (#7781131)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is also available under public domain and available here: http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html
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Re:Meditations by devindotcom on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @07:28PM (#7781343)
It's good to check a few translations. Some didn't resonate with me in the way they phrased things or their word choice. Same with any classic - stop by a used book store and read the same paragraph a couple times in different translations and see which works for you.
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Re:Meditations by markbao on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:28PM (#7781827)
The translation that my friends have recommended is the Hays translation, which seems to be a good one from my reading.
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Re:Meditations by devindotcom on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @11:10PM (#7781928)
For the record, my favorite is Robert Graves'.
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Re:Meditations by konstruktor on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @07:32PM (#7781357)
Couldn't agree more. It's a book written in Greek by a Roman - get a readable translation.
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Re:Meditations by razibog on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @08:24PM (#7781509)
Will do, thanks for the suggestion!
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