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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: Insights with Donald Robertson

The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

CHAPTER

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

I've been studying Marx Aurelius um and reading a bit for such a long time actually it's kind of been a piecemeal thing. As I've studied the meditation is more closely over time I've gradually come to greater and greater realization that he's referencing ideas and practices that he learned in school. He had a certain respect for other nations that perhaps wasn't shared by the rampros or other Romans in general. Marcus saw himself as being part of something bigger even than the Roman Empire  the Roman Empire is asbeing part of a larger world community.

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