Meditations: A New Translation
The emperor's private notebook opens with gratitude performed at length: Book I is a catalogue of debts — person by person, what each one taught him — written by Marcus to himself, with no audience intended. Goodreads 4.35 for the Hays translation.
Gregory Hays’s Modern Library translation is the contemporary standard for the Meditations. The directory cites it for Book I — the most famous written gratitude exercise in Western antiquity: a running list of what Marcus owed and to whom, kept in a notebook never meant for us.
One Stoic's private practice, in a modern literary translation; Stoicism is a school with several voices and Marcus is its gentlest. Philosophy practised, not a claim that the practice produces measured outcomes.
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