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Today, we're diving into Meditation 7,

from Book 4 of the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius,

which reads as follows. It is natural that these things should be done by such persons. It is a matter

of necessity, and if a man will not have it so, he will not allow the fig to have juice. But by all

means bear this in mind, that within a very short time, both thou and he

will be dead, and soon, not even your names will be left behind. Everything we've talked about

on this podcast up till right now, Marcus is telling us here must be put into practice, for if it is

not, then we will grow to be incomplete men and

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