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Author Phillip Barlag on Roman History’s Lessons for Modern Life | This is Where Your Temper Will Take You

The Daily Stoic

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The Transition From Marcus to Commodus

There are so many lessons to be learned in terms of the nature of power and its judicious use. I am horrified and fascinated by how it could go so wrong. If i could ever find myself in front of marcus, i feel like i'd ask him. You can't do much better than marcus. You can's do much worse than commodus,. And you can't find their matched pair in direct succession just about anywhere else.

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