programme for a highly organized society making towards a goal of general improvement.' Nevertheless there is something inexpressibly noble in the
character they reveal and the programme they outline. In an age where the little man must have been made increasingly aware of his impotence in the
face of a crushing imperial machine, Epictetus' invitation to win peace of soul, and with it happiness, by adapting oneself to one's circumstances and
restricting one's desires within the bounds of the possible, must have sounded both wise and attractive. Conformity of such a sort reaches religious
proportions when 'nature' becomes the same as 'God'.
Bronze Statue Of Marcus Aurelius On Horseback. The Roman Emperor (AD 161-80) was inspired by stoic philosophy and wrote the Meditations, a
collection of personal thoughts which has achieved great success since the sixteenth century; it was his tragedy to have been committed, during his