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While the Gregory Hays translation is a modern, copyrighted work, various digital versions and older public-domain translations are available online:
Because Marcus Aurelius wrote the original text nearly 2,000 years ago, many older translations are in the public domain. You can read or download these for free on Project Gutenberg , which offers: : EPUB, Kindle, and Plain Text.
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