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Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. It is a philosophy of personal virtue ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world, asserting that the practice of virtue is both necessary and sufficient to achieve eudaimonia (happiness, lit. 'good spiritedness').

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So I wanted to read Meditations and I’m looking for the best edition / translation to start with. I’ve usually been the person to try to find the free version or the $0.49 edition. I’ve read a lot of people recommend the ~$10 edition by Gregory Hays. Would you say it’s that much better that for a first time reader it would make sense to get it? Money isn’t an issue, but I have this thing about wanting to verify quality before shelling out. I have the project Gutenberg version of course, but it feels like there probably could exist a better laid out edition.

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