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18 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Aurelius

The Daily Stoic

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Marcus Rios' Humor in Meditations

Marcus had a sense of humor. In one of his letters to his tutor, Fronto, he talks about this prank he played on a shepherd. One of my favorite examples of Marcus Rios' humor is he jokes in meditations about a man so rich he had nowhere to shit in his house. But I like the idea that this dour and serious stoic still had room in his life for literal toilet humor.

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