Marcus Aurelius Notebook

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

These artful notebooks are inspired by the timeless beauty of vintage French Cahiers. The classic design features weighty natural paper, rounded corners, and thirty two lined pages. They’re versatile enough to display as art objects, jot down your thoughts, or give as a practical, thoughtful gift.

• Size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
• Proudly made in the USA
• Offset printed
• Cover: Partially recycled, natural white
• Inside: 32 pages, uncoated 80# natural paper
• Saddle stitched 

ABOUT THE ART

In Meditations, Aurelius distills the central pillars and tenets of stoic philosophy. Although it was essentially a journal and never intended for a general readership, it has become one of the most widely read philosophical works in the world. 

In our illustration, we drew inspiration from one of Notre Dame's stained glass rose windows, a fractured relic in the shape of a Roman Legionnaire's helmet. Like the stoic's ideal state of mind, stained glass is at once orderly and beautiful. Ideas radiate out from central first principles in a natural and inevitable succession of deductions and balancing forces. At the helmet's edge I added six pictograms, representing the four pillars of stoicism (Courage, Justice, Temperance and Wisdom) as well as two central stoic concepts: Memento Mori ("Remember Mortality"), and Amor Fati ("Love Fate").

• Size: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
• Proudly made in the USA
• Offset printed
• Cover: Partially recycled, natural white
• Inside: 32 pages, uncoated 80# natural paper
• Saddle stitched with matching staples