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Marcus Aurelius was emperor.

Cato was a senator.

Seneca served as consul.

Brusicus was a Roman general.

Routilius was a governor in Asia.

These were prestigious and enormously powerful positions.

We once had Stoics in high office.

We had Stoics making important decisions.

We're a long way from that today, aren't we?

But then again, this was not exactly representative of Rome either.

The vast majority of emperors were nothing like Marcus Aurelius. Most of the senators went along with Nero instead of resisting him.

A better picture of the Stoics then is someone like Epictetus or someone like Clthes, someone at the bottom of the social hierarchy,

trying to make the best of their lives amidst injustice, dysfunction, and frustration. A better picture

of the Stoics we've said are the people you've never even heard of, men and women who lived

ordinary virtuous lives that were never recorded by history. It is that life that

test the limits of one's endurance. It is that life that is truly a lesson in the dichotomy of control.

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