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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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It’s a book that was never meant to be read. So why has Meditations by Marcus Aurelius endured and influenced across so many centuries? And what makes its ancient wisdom still relevant to the modern problems we face today?

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1:34.0	Welcome to the Daily Stilic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
1:41.0	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2, 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
1:46.5	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
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2:02.6	For more, visitdailystoic.com. How could this possibly help you? It was never meant to be seen by prying eyes. It certainly wasn't meant to be published as a book. It was written in an antiquated foreign language full of ancient philosophy that until recently few had ever even
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