7 Life Lessons From Marcus Aurelius

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Marcus Aurelius was the most modest, introspective and long-suffering of monarchs. He was a good man and an enlightened ruler who wished only the best for his people. He had been carefully chosen and groomed for his job. Sickly and serious-minded as a child, he had developed into a dedicated Stoic, a practitioner of a philosophy that preached simplicity, self-discipline, endurance and duty.

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