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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down. Be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

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Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man in the world, but he knew that even so, the vast majority of things were outside of his control.

He couldn't control what other people did. He couldn't control what other people said. Certainly, even though some members tried, couldn't control what other people said about him.

But even within these constraints, he tried to be the best person he was capable of being.

You know, he's born in the year 121. He comes to power in the year 161 AD. He rules for nearly two decades through all sorts of difficulties.

Things that were unfortunately familiar with today, political unrest, floods, issues at the border, a plague, even the Antonin plague.

And so I find him just an endlessly fascinating model for life.

And so in today's episode, I want to give you some rules for life from Marcus Aurelius practices, strategies, things I've taken from meditations, things I've taken from the biographical world.

From the biographical information we have about Marcus, things we can guess about Marcus, but real practices, rules, standards, ways of thinking that we can apply to our actual life.

I just, you know, again, you think about the power this guy had. And I love this line from Matthew Arnold. He says, despite getting all of that, Marcus proves himself worthy of it.

So how do we do that? I think these rules are a recipe for at least getting close.

And certainly they'll make us better, stronger, more honorable, kinder, more patient, all the things more virtuous, all the things Marcus strove to be and do.

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