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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Donald Robertson On the Brilliance and Insights of Marcus Aurelius
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Is It a Bit Strange to You You Mentioned the Spanish Flue?
I think that's a real, it's a really interesting question, is and the more you read history, the more you realize. But also, though the wave illnesses effect civilization, and often they're just not called it for some reason. Even actually, the meditations, funnily enough, is a striking example of that, because marcus wrote it in the middle of this huge plague that must have absolutely transformed his life,. It was very visible as well. He only mentions one in the whole book. And when he does mention it, it's in a very kind of off hand way. I mean, i'd only sort of vaguely heard of the the spanish flue.
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