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doing. Today we are going to dive into the 10th meditation of book two, and I have a little bit

of a warning label on this one. It's for the female listeners again, and that is, remember,

this is an ancient philosophy. It wasn't really written with women in mind. Women did not

fulfill the role of philosopher in ancient Rome or ancient Greece. This is a function of the time. The Stoics were very progressive in many ways, but, you know, after enough time passes, everybody's got their shortcomings. You go far enough out into the future, and you look far enough back into the past and everybody was kind of terrible.

In the case of this meditation, there is a lot of masculine language. In fact, at one point we call

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