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Author Phillip Barlag on Roman History’s Lessons for Modern Life | This is Where Your Temper Will Take You

The Daily Stoic

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'If I Leave, Someone Worse Will Replace Me'

Wright: Seneca's approach of modifying power from within, as opposed to try to take control under a different institution, was probably the correct course of action yeto. He says when your charge executes their own mother and y, it puts you in a position where you are, in effect, condoning. Wright: To do so would be to abandon his duty, which means that nero can do whatever he wants, and seneca will help him.

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