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Meet my new friend, Marc
I would like to introduce you all to my new friend, Marcus. I like to call him Marc, but posterity remembers him as Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE), emperor of Rome and Stoic philosopher. A mutual...
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What time is yours?
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE) has some blunt words to share about procrastination, which I cannot disagree with*: Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you...
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What loss is death?
From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE), book 2, paragraph 14: Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he...
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Marc on opinion
So I was hanging out with my friend Marc again, and he had this to say about opinion (Meditations, book 3, paragraph 9): Treat with respect the power you have to form an opinion. By it alone can the...
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Marc on temperance
I quite like this stoic advice from my good friend Marc (Meditations, book 4, paragraph 22): Never allow yourself to be swept off your feet; when an impulse stirs, see first that it will meet the...
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To what must we aspire, and why?
Well, Marc has done it again. Talking along, making all sort of sense – even wisdom (but don’t tell him I said so) – and then completely losing me as he finishes: Expressions that were once current...
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