18 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Aurelius
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🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It is amazing that Meditations, year after year and read after read, feels both incredibly timely and incredibly timeless (there’s a reason the book has endured now for almost twenty centuries).
It’s amazing that a person so famous—known to millions in his own lifetime and subject to countless books and articles and movies—could still be giving off new secrets, but indeed that’s what he’s doing.
Today, we examine 18 things you didn’t know that shaped the life of that person, Marcus Aurelius.
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| 0:51.8 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | We talk a lot about Marcus Aurelius here on this podcast and maybe you think you know |
| 1:01.3 | him because you read meditations. |
| 1:02.8 | Maybe you think you know him because you read my biography of him in Liza the Stoics. |
| 1:07.0 | But I'm pretty sure there's some things you don't know about him. |
| 1:10.9 | Certainly he continues to surprise me. |
| 1:14.1 | You know this idea of never stepping the same river twice. |
| 1:16.6 | I think every time you look at Marcus because he was just specific enough just general |
| 1:20.4 | enough every time you look at him you discover something new you learn something new. |
| 1:25.0 | As things is especially true in meditations each time you pick it up you see something |
| 1:29.4 | you find something different. |
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