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Clear filters"I had James Ramen here and he wrote this book Plato and the Tyrant. Plato's forays into politics are a cautionary tale against thought leaders and intellectuals sometimes participating in public life."
"One of the things Marcus Aurelius does say in Meditations about the people who would have always been flattering him and telling him he's amazing or people who would have been criticizing him or attacking him"
"His meditations are his philosophical writings to himself."
"The most famous passage in Meditations is Marcus Aurelius struggling to get out of bed at dawn."
"Mark Sha says in meditations, whether you're cold or you're warm, whether you're tired or you're hungry, whether you're loved for it or despised for it, you got to do the right thing."
"One of the interesting passages in Meditations, Marcus talks about, he says, 'Practice using the non-dominant hand.'"
"The most well-known stoic is Marcus Aurelius, who's the emperor of Rome, the philosopher king."
"Actually, Mark addresses this in meditations too. This is fundamentally what the philosophy is for."
"at the beginning of meditations, Mark Aurelius talks about one of his teachers taught him to be free of passion but full of love"
"Meditations is one sort of rule, admonishment, high almost impossible standard that he's setting for himself after another."
"Marcus Aurelius in his famous meditations. They're notes to the self. It's a dialogue with the self."
"In meditations, Marcus is ripping on Plato. He says, 'Against their will, their souls are cut off from truth.'"
"Marcus Aurelius tells us that's not allowed. As he says in the opening of book five of meditations at dawn when you have trouble getting out of bed tell yourself I have to go to work as a human being."
"This is one of the best passages in meditations. The most powerful man in the world telling himself to get out of bed and get after it."
"Seneca talks about turning the words into works"
"How does the man Dan Kaine, who is now supervising America's military engagement around the world, rely on stoicism?"
"probably what drew me to Marcus Aurelius was the movie Gladiator"
"There's a passage that hit me when I first read it. It's the opening of book five where he's just like talking about not wanting to get out of bed in the morning."
"This is what we mean when we say ego is the enemy."
"A man who's still so famous you can buy coins with his face on them on Etsy."
"Marcus was writing in what we now call the Antonine plague. Like they named it after him, but it's like a global pandemic."
"It's in The 48 Laws of Power. Always say less than necessary."
"He says, 'It doesn't matter how good a life you've led, there will still be people standing around the bed who will welcome the sad event.'"
"Mark Sera says, 'Concentrate on doing the thing in front of you as if it was the last thing you were doing in your life.'"
"In Marcus's meditations, Marcus is lamenting all the shitty things that are happening around him."
"In 1962, a philosophy professor at Stanford grabs a thin Manila volume of the Incurian, the best pieces of Epictitus' lectures, and he gives it to Stockdale, the book that saves his life."
"In his great annotated edition of meditations, Robin Waterfield translated the same passage like this."
"Here's a great passage from the Gregory Hayes translation of meditations. When jarred unavoidably by circumstances, he writes..."
"my favorite novel, The Moviegoer, which is a book inspired by stoic philosophy by Walker Percy"
"One of the things I love from Epictetus, he was talking about how a really good money changer in the ancient world could take a coin and by banging it on the table tell if it was counterfeit or not."