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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 That He Was So Philosophical?

In the histories, there's this kind of suggestion that he makes a remark about it as he's dying. And then in his private notes, he doesn't mention it explicitly. Although i guess that the ultimate sort of statement of from marcus on the plague is that 'his final words were about the devastation and loss of all the people that had gone before him' But everything he says in the meditations is so vague. You know, he the there are very few specific details.

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