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Good morning, precoctans. Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell,

and today we're going to cover meditation number 44 from book four, and we're going to answer a listener question about marriage and divorce from the stoic perspective.

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forward slash ask because you are going to be responsible in a large way for helping to make

the daily episodes longer than they are when they're just the meditation. So I really appreciate

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Moving on, let's start with today's meditation, which reads as follows.

Everything which happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruit

in summer, for such as disease and death and

calumny and treachery, and whatever else delights fools or vexes them. Marcus is coming in hot today.

Are you vexed by things, delighted by things? Why? These things that inspire those feelings

have always been things that exist. It's never been

the case that death hasn't happened, or disease, or treachery, or fill in the blank. Nothing is new,

and everything and anything should be expected within a lifetime, if you're in any way reasonable

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