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Three and a three-quarter stars.

This would definitely have received more stars from me if I embraced stoicism as my personal philosophy. I do find it useful to employ stoicism on a practical level in my everyday life, in order to make life more bearable, and in order to get done what needs to be done, but I'm not a fan of determinism.

So, while I do subscribe to the basic tenets of pragmatism, and therefore find Aurelius's dignified outlook and pointers on behavior and thought of great value, I don't like the idea that everything that happens in the universe is a foregone conclusion, and the latter seems to sort of be the ultimate outcome if any sort of stoicism is taken to it's logical conclusion.

That said, Aurelius's Meditations is more about how to live a dignified and useful life, and is certainly worth reading. Much wisdom to be found there.