You Don’t Get To Do This Anymore | Don’t Look For The Third Thing
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations to himself, yet he only speaks positively of people he knows in those pages.
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| 1:31.1 | week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you |
| 1:35.2 | with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. So let's get into it. |
| 1:45.0 | You don't get to do this. You don't get to do this anymore. Of course Seneca must have thought Nero was insane. |
| 1:58.0 | Marcus Riele has probably thought the same about Hadrian. They knew the flaws of these men, |
| 2:02.0 | yet their position and tradition forbade them from simply saying what they thought. Seneca had a delicate balance he had to walk. |
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