“David and Scot Hicks have endowed serious readers with a marvelous new translation of a text that still challenges any society that hopes to understand what it means to be civilized.Kenneth L. The Hicks brothers' excellently clear translation happily now makes it accessible.” –Donald Kagan Hillhouse, Professor of History and Classics at Yale University “The wisdom contained in this handbook has been admired through the ages. The philosophical observations are the same but the tone is manly and there is a subtle and agreeable variety as the subject changes from self to the world and to the gods.” –Jacques Barzun, author of From Dawn to Decadence

But a look for curiosity's sake into this new translation has led me to read it all with genuine pleasure. “The Meditations is a work I disliked for its flaccid piety and self-concern from the time I read it years ago. No translation does the Emperor's Meditations better or nobler justice.” –J osiah Bunting II Superintendent, Virginia Military Institute “Timeless, magnificent, simple: the essential book on character, leadership, duty. Americans should read Marcus – and this new edition now makes it a joy.” –Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University “This new, accessible translation by Scot and David Hicks of the emperor's famous Stoic handbook reflects far better the flavor of Marcus Aurelius's own style. This is a fantastic achievement.” –Steve Forbes

The emperor's handbook