Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would become its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers. The "Meditations," which he wrote in Greek, are among the most noteworthy expressions of this system, and exhibit it favorably on its practical side. The work is a series of twelve books that he intended for his own guidance and self-improvement, which picture wi...

Step into the private reflections of a Roman emperor and discover one of the most influential works of philosophy ever written.Meditations is a collection of personal writings and spiritual reflections by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, translated by eminent Classical scholar George Long. His thoughts on how to lead a virtuous life, the importance of tranquillity and his ideas on how to reconcile the challenges of public and private life have become one...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of ideas that have guided leaders, thinkers and seekers for centuries. The Essential Ancient Wisdom Library brings together ten complete works of philosophy, Stoicism, strategy and self-mastery in one accessible volume. Read Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus alongside Plato, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Miyamoto Musashi, Machiavelli, Nietzsche and James Allen. Move from inner discipline and ethical reflection to political insight, strategic thinking and purposeful living th...

Build a personal library of enduring ideas with ten complete classics of philosophy, leadership, strategy and self-mastery. This collection begins with Stoic discipline and ethical reflection, crosses the Greek and Chinese traditions, and continues into influential European works on power, purpose and the life of the mind. Read Meditations, Moral Letters to Lucilius, The Enchiridion, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Prince, Beyond Good and Evil and As...

Discover ten enduring guides to courage, discipline, leadership and the examined life. This essential library unites Meditations, Moral Letters to Lucilius, The Enchiridion, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Prince, Beyond Good and Evil and As a Man Thinketh. From Stoic calm and Eastern wisdom to strategy and modern self-mastery, the works are arranged as a practical intellectual journey. A structured table of contents gives direct access to every book...

Discover ten enduring guides to courage, discipline, leadership and the examined life. This essential library unites Meditations, Moral Letters to Lucilius, The Enchiridion, Tao Te Ching, The Republic, The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Prince, Beyond Good and Evil and As a Man Thinketh. From Stoic calm and Eastern wisdom to strategy and modern self-mastery, the works are arranged as a practical intellectual journey. A structured table of contents gives direct access to every book...