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The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

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How Marcus Aurelius Deals With Difficult People

Marcus Aurelius seems very skilled at dealing with difficult people any any rights about this as well in meditations. One of the things that marx has mentioned in passing in the meditations is that he had difficulty controlling his temper. The person he says he lost his temper with the most is actually genius rusticus again his stoic mentor who was maybe being a little bit tough on him when he was another lesson and kind of challenging so one of the major themes of the meditations it covers many aspects of stoicism and there are several themes that are quite explicit and dominate throughout the book.

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