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Mike Duncan On Using the Past to Guide the Future

The Daily Stoic

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Iso, Was Nero a Machiavellian?

Iso, what was going through nero's mind? You know, was nero a machiavellian, you know, murderer of his enemies? Or did he delude himself into thinking that this was the rational response to real threats. And i think, now, seneca talks about this in his plays. Heis never sure o talks about it overtly, but ounow it, those empty fears earns one real fears. It creates your delusions and your insanity also contribute to the fidbalo it were talking about,. Yes. This is actually something that happens a lot in im in all the work that i do on revolutions," Iso says.

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