There Is Always Both | Marks Of The Good Life
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It was an awful period of Roman history. A fifteen year plague that killed millions. Political corruption and deceit. Historic floods. Tragic wars on distant frontiers. Marcus Aurelius experienced all the disasters that could befall a leader, smack dab in the middle of a period we now see as the beginning of the decline and fall of the whole empire.
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And in today's excerpt from The Daily Stoic, Ryan reminds us to let our princeples be the source of desire and action, removing any source of evil, and creating your own meaning of life though jusice, self-control, courage & freedom.
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| 1:09.2 | online community. Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. On Friday, we do double duty not just |
| 1:19.4 | reading our daily meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic. My book, |
| 1:24.6 | 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Heart of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful |
| 1:30.8 | collaborator, translator, and literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. So today, it will give you a |
| 1:36.6 | quick meditation from the Stoics with some analysis from me, and then we'll send you out into the world |
| 1:42.4 | to turn these words into works. There is always both. It was an awful period of Roman history, |
| 1:56.4 | a 15-year plague that killed millions. Political corruption and deceit, historic floods, |
| 2:01.7 | tragic wars on distant frontiers. Marcus had really experienced all the disasters that could |
| 2:07.3 | befall a leader smack dab in the middle of a period we now see as the beginning of the decline |
| 2:12.4 | and fall of the whole empire. Yet amidst this, Marcus was not only as good and decent as a leader, |
| 2:19.3 | as a leader could be, but he produced meditations, one of the most beautiful and enduring works of |
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