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Marcus therefore says that it’s not in feelings but in actions that your supreme good resides.10 The wise man’s sense of delight comes from one thing alone: acting consistently in accord with virtue.11 Nevertheless, Marcus does elsewhere mention two additional sources of joy. Together these correspond with the three core relationships that Stoic ethics encompassed: our self, other people, and the world as a whole.
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
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