This is the first part of a series about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. The series is introduced here.
I first encountered Meditations in a film called The Corn Is Green. Katherine Hepburn plays an altruistic school-mistress who moves to the Welsh country-side to educate miner’s children. She discovers one young miner who turns out to be brilliant. [...]
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