For Neo-Pagans: Do you enjoy reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations?

Question

Here's one:

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body,
the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these
things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good
and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful,
and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong,
that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that
it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the
divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can
fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate
him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like
eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against
one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one
another to be vexed and to turn away.

Answer 1

I never have... are they online somewhere where I can take a look at one and let you know?

Answer 2

I even have examine or heard that when Spinoza died in 21 February 1677 there have been approximately one hundred sixty books in his library. Empirically if MEDITATIONS (in keeping with hazard in Latin yet it extremely is no longer that for the duration of all likelihood there became a Dutch translation interior the mid to overdue seventeenth century) became in his series he in all likelihood had examine it. yet whether the e book will no longer be able to be confirmed to be in his series he nevertheless might have examine it, I even have examine works approximately and not by capacity of Spinoza however I even have examine one version of English translation of MEDITATIONS. the two Spinoza's ETHICS and MEDITATIONS have been revealed posthumously however Marcus at a minimum did no longer intend to post or publicize his'diary' or reflections. It will no longer be able to be confirmed, i think of, no be counted if or no longer Marcus ordered of (or in case you desire coming from an Emperor) request that his diary be destroyed. He might desire to or he might desire to no longer have. If he had made considered one of those request or command and if it became disregarded we can thank people who disregarded the Emperor's desires for the extremely short yet rich legacy Marcus' 'Notes to Myself' has left as a philosophical or a minimum of reflective legacy.