Meditations

This is pretty amazing, and one of the easier to read translations of the journal(s) of Marcus Aurelius, one of the Roman Emperors. This is disjoint chunks of information and ideas, some repeated, some with references long lost.

It serves as his journal during his leadership time, and probably served as his outlet for things he could not say given his position.

I would not recommend powering through this. Read it in bits, ponder, and then come back to it.

The content is great but the notes are linked poorly (at least in the Kindle version). In the end there are plethora of helpful notes explaining ancient things, but they are only linked backwards. I.e. not from text to footnotes but from notes to text, making their discovery hard.