I bought his book meditations about 20 years ago and just got around to reading it last month.

I made it to my chapter 3 we're in he says something to the effect of "I have saved all these old scrolls from Greek and Roman philosophers to read in my old age and now that I'm there I know that I never will"

Ironic.

He is known as the last of the good emperors, because he was a bad emperor who swt his insane son up to be the next one