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#541 - Ryan Holiday - Stoicism's Lessons For A Disciplined Life
Modern Wisdom
Are You Trying to Future-Protect a Tyrant?
Marcus was trying to future-proof any one tyrant from being in too much control because you would always have this other person. We believe that his succession plan for his son was to set up some sort of system or tradition where that happened again. The other quirk is, Marcus is the only emperor, five emperors in a row to have a male heir. And we don't know what Marcus thinks of comatice. But certainly something goes wrong and it's a tragedy of, in some ways, an indictment of Marcus.
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