Mark Your Exit With Grace
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of humanity’s greatest specimens. On March 17th, 180, in what is now modern day Vienna, Emperor Marcus Aurelius breathed his last breath and died. We don’t know exactly what his last words were. Cassius Dio claims that Marcus spoke his last sentence to his guard, saying to him, “Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.” Given the incredible legacy of the man, these words ring somewhat insufficiently.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoeck Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:08.5 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. |
| 0:13.3 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some |
| 0:17.6 | of history's greatest men and women. |
| 0:20.2 | For more you can visit us dailystoeck.com. |
| 0:29.5 | Look your exit with grace. |
| 0:32.7 | Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of humanity's greatest specimens. |
| 0:38.4 | On March 17th, the year 180 AD, and what is now modern day Vienna, Emperor Marcus |
| 0:45.3 | Errelius breathed his last breath and died. |
| 0:48.7 | We don't know exactly what his last words are. |
| 0:51.3 | Cassius Dio claims that Marcus spoke his last sentence to his guard, saying to him, |
| 0:55.9 | go to the rising sun for I am setting. |
| 0:59.8 | Given the incredible legacy of the man, these words ring somewhat inefficiently. |
| 1:04.5 | Instead, we should remember Marcus's last writing as his last words. |
| 1:09.4 | Because this simple paragraph which concludes his famous meditations reads as if the man |
| 1:13.9 | wrote it as he faced the very real and immediate end of his existence and therefore stands |
| 1:20.0 | as inspiration and solace to all of us living today. |
| 1:23.8 | Who lived as a citizen in a great city, he wrote five years or a hundred, what's the |
| 1:29.0 | difference? |
| 1:30.4 | The laws make no distinction. |
| 1:33.7 | And to be sent away from it not by a tyrant or a dishonest judge, but by nature who first |
| 1:38.4 | invited you in, why is this so terrible? |
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