Reflections book in 10-minute reading format: reviews of the best books, only the most important and useful.Marcus Aurelius was the emperor of the Roman Empire for 19 years, whom the Romans elevated to the rank of an ideal emperor after his death - a brilliant ruler-philosopher, whose reign was in the nature of true nobility. He was also a student of the philosophical school of the Stoics and refused to feel unhappy in the face of life's difficulties.QUOTE: “In the morning, tell yourself in advance: I will meet the vain, the ungrateful, the impudent, the cunning, the greedy, the unsociable. All this happened to them out of ignorance of good and evil. And I saw in the nature of good that it is beautiful, and in the nature of evil, that it is shameful, and also in the nature of the sinner, that he is related to me - not by blood and seed, but by participation in the mind and divine allotment. And that I can’t suffer harm from any of them, because no one plunges me into shame.”