Currently reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. It was famously a diary by the Roman emperor who never intended it for publication and never gave it a title. As the author of the edition I'm reading wrote it "was a self-help book in the most literal sense."
Just starting the book but to be honest it does make me curious to learn more about Epicureanism:
"Epicurus acknowledged the existence of gods, but denied they had any interest in human life. As for humans our role is simple to live as best we can, making the most of what pleasures are available to us and insulating ourselves as far as possible from pain and anxiety. In particular, we are we are to feel no anxiety about death, which consists simply in the dissolution of our component atoms."
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