ravings

I liked this review, Peter. I haven't read Meditations since I was a teenager. At the time, I had a huge crush on Spock, so I was delighted to find something by a "real" Stoic. I love that his writing is so approachable and obviously personal. His intellectual honesty, constant self-reflectiveness, and innate distrust of what a position of power could potentially do to his character remind me a lot of Václav Havel. They are rare and wonderful traits in a head of state.