One is the Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith. The other is the Meditations [of MarcusAurelius]. There are too many memoirs selling nowadays. I don't like reading those books.
Like Seneca before him, MarcusAurelius believed that a divine providence had placed reason in man, and it was in the power of man to be one with the rational purpose of the universe.
Socrates should enter into Adam and produce MarcusAurelius; in other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum.