You’re Not Dead Yet… | 9 Stoic Secrets For Self-Mastery (From Experts)
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
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Summary
Marcus Aurelius was already quite old while writing Meditations. He was sick and surrounded by plague. Seneca was a marked man from the moment he left Nero’s service. But as aware as these men were of their ticking clocks, they were also quite aware that they were not dead yet. Seneca wrote many of his most beautiful letters in those final years.
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| 1:36.4 | You're not dead yet. Marcus Aurelius was already quite old while writing meditations. He was sick |
| 1:42.6 | and surrounded by the plague. Sennaka was a marked man from the moment he left Nero's service. |
| 1:48.4 | Yet as aware as these men were of their ticking clocks, they were also quite aware that they were |
| 1:52.9 | not dead yet. Sennaka wrote many of his most beautiful letters in those final years. Marcus Aurelius |
| 1:59.2 | managed to bring meditations to the most perfect conclusion. He worked hard at his very important |
| 2:04.4 | job, both managed to do good for their country, for their families, for themselves. |
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