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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Aurelius was a man who did not partake in the base pleasures of his time. While other Romans saw the death and the carnage of the colosseum as entertainment, Marcus did not. While other Romans–particularly rich, male Romans–saw their slaves not just as property but as walking pleasure machines, Marcus Aurelius did not.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.
0:07.3	On Thursdays we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading a
0:13.4	passage from the book The Daily Stoic's 366 Meditations on Wisdom Perseverance in the
0:19.2	Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman.
0:25.1	And so today we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics from Epititus Mark
0:29.9	is really a Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world
0:35.1	to do your best to turn these words into works.
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0:58.6	The worst people to bring in 3 words are meaning and significance to their lives and we use
1:04.0	that as a springboard for conversation and then at the end of the show we ask them for
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1:48.0	You must question.
1:57.5	Marcus Aurelius was a man who did not partake in the base pleasures of his time while other
2:02.4	Romans saw the death and carnage of the Colosseum as entertainment.
2:06.3	Marcus did not.
2:07.7	While other Romans, particularly the rich male Romans saw their slaves not just his property
2:11.3	but his walking pleasure machines.
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