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#226 - Ryan Holiday - Taking Wisdom From The Lives Of The Stoics
Modern Wisdom
The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Rome
i love the idea that he's introduced to philosophy in a book store in athens. i think it's quite fitting that stoicism would be founded, you know, in a moment of extreme adversity. The next one would be rutilius rufus, who is a sort of an administrator. And then marcus a realist, just cause he's my favourite and i think sort of the penultimate example of stoicism. I mean, we know what people with absolute power do as they make git somebody else's problem, right? They kick the can down the road,. or invade someone, or levy high taxes - whatever it is.
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