Marcus Aurelius (121–180)

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1. Charles William Eliot

   Author of Elizabethan Drama, Volume I: Marlowe; Shakespeare, American Historical Documents, 1000-1904, Sacred Writings, Volume I: Confucian; Hebrew; Christian (Part I)

2. Seneca the Younger

   Author of On the shortness of life, Letters from a Stoic, Moral essays, Vol. I

3. Aristotle

   Author of Nicomachean Ethics, The Politics, On Man in the Universe (Classics Club)

4. Plato

   Author of The Republic, The Last Days of Socrates, Plato: Cratylus. Parmenides. Greater Hippias. Lesser Hippias. (Loeb Classical Library No. 167)

5. Will Durant

   Author of The Story of Philosophy, Our Oriental Heritage, The Age of Reason Begins

6. Plutarch

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7. Julius Caesar

   Author of Commentaries on the Gallic War, The Civil War

8. Epictetus

   Author of Discourses / Handbook / Fragments, Discourses 1,2, Discourses 3,4 / Handbook / Fragments

9. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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10. Suetonius

    Author of The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, Vol. 1: The Lives of the Caesars--Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula (Loeb Classical Library, No. 31, SUETONIUS Vol.II The Lives of the Caesars, II: Claudius. Nero. Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Vespasian. Titus, Domitian. L

11. Thucydides

    Author of The History of the Peloponnesian War

12. Michel de Montaigne

    Author of The Complete Essays, The Essays: A Selection

13. Boethius

    Author of The Consolation of Philosophy

14. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Author of Emerson's Essays, Essays and English Traits, The Best of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, Poems, Addresses (Classics Club)

15. Lucretius

    Author of On the Nature of the Universe

16. Herodotus

    Author of The Histories (Penguin Classics)

17. Francis Bacon

    Author of Essays, Essays and New Atlantis

18. Richard Henry Dana

    Author of Two Years Before the Mast, Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After

19. Xenophon

    Author of The Persian Expedition, Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Symposium, Apology (Loeb Classical Library, No. 168)

20. James Boswell

    Author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.