# Meditations  ## Metadata - Author: [[Marcus Aurelius]] - Full Title: Meditations - Category: #books ## Highlights - The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature. In the individual it is virtue alone which enables him to do this; as Providence rules the universe, so virtue in the soul must rule man. ([Location 660](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002RKRUEA&location=660)) - doubtless he expected his soul one day to be absorbed into the universal soul, since nothing comes out of nothing, and nothing can be annihilated. ([Location 742](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002RKRUEA&location=742)) - He who had all the world's pleasures at command can write thus 'A happy lot and portion is, good inclinations of the soul, good desires, good actions.' ([Location 762](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002RKRUEA&location=762)) - Most peaceful of warriors, a magnificent monarch whose ideal was quiet happiness in home life, bent to obscurity yet born to greatness, the loving father of children who died young or turned out hateful, his life was one paradox. ([Location 771](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002RKRUEA&location=771))