Meditations Marcus Aurelius Translated By Gregory Hays: Pdf Top

For decades, readers struggled with archaic, Victorian translations that made Stoicism feel dusty and detached. Gregory Hays changed the landscape by stripping away the "thee" and "thou" in favor of a crisp, muscular, and contemporary English prose. His version captures the urgency of a man writing to himself in the middle of military campaigns and plagues.

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