Bust of Marcus Aurelius in the Louvre. Source: Bob3321 / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Marcus Aurelius: A Timeless Guide to Life from the Philosopher King

Roman emperors are perhaps remembered for their notoriety more than anything else. We remember Julius Caesar, after whom all the subsequent rulers took their name, as a brilliant commander (and because he wrote an awful lot of histories about himself) but he is most famous for his actions against the dying Roman Republic, for which