Marcus Aurelius, every mention

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▶ 10:06 Ryan Holiday There's a passage in meditations where Marx realises sort of criticizing the people who are always trying to delve into what lies beneath.
▶ 10:52 Ryan Holiday It is the practice of having a conversation with yourself about your thoughts, and beliefs, and values, and actions, and that, I don't think it's a coincidence that Mark Surius' sole philosophical work was entitled Meditations, which the,… 4 times in the scene
▶ 16:32 Ryan Holiday And when you look at Marx's meditations, you're not seeing a person who is devoid of emotion. 2 times in the scene
▶ 27:15 Ryan Holiday I mean, the Roman empire makes contact with the Han dynasty during Marcus Aurelius's reign. 2 times in the scene
▶ 34:12 Ryan Holiday So what I think makes Marx real is such a fascinating example. 3 times in the scene
▶ 44:13 Ryan Holiday Mark Srinos writes in meditation, you can imagine the immense pressure and inbound that's coming at the emperor of fifty million people. 5 times in the scene
▶ 53:31 Ryan Holiday We have a couple of stories of Mark's realest crying, but we don't have any stories of him losing his temper. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:29:14 Ryan Holiday So, you know, like I, when I'm trying to visualize things, I use it, and sometimes we'll use it in videos, and we're like, you know, show Marcus Aurelius, like, in a suit of armor, show Marcus Aurelius, like, so I use it for things like…

▶ 12:50 Jason Karp I originally discovered a lot of the Stoics and, and didn't know who any of them were, you know, like Epictetus and, and Aurelius and Seneca.

▶ 1:17:32 Shane Parrish We've been talking about this since like Marcus Aurelius, probably like a thousand years before that.

▶ 19:31 Ryan Holiday And then Marcus Aurelius building on that says, look, uh, everything that happens is an opportunity to practice virtue.
▶ 59:01 Shane Parrish One of the things a lot of the Stoics have in common, uh, at least like Marcus Aurelius, and a lot of, or maybe not Stoics, but more prominent people in life, is that they journal.
▶ 1:06:20 Ryan Holiday And so, you know, we talked about earlier, like Mark's really saying that every situation is an opportunity to practice virtue. 2 times in the scene

▶ 7:30 William Irvine So the people you normally think of as Stoics are Roman Stoics, uh, most famously, top four, uh, Seneca, who's currently my favorite, but ask me next week, and I might have a different favorite, uh, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, um, Epictetus,… 3 times in the scene
▶ 40:17 William Irvine Uh, if I'm lying in bed, I ask myself, what would, uh, Marcus Aurelius do, right? 2 times in the scene

▶ 57:08 Code Cubitt And by, by reading, uh, fundamentally biographies, um, up and down the line from, say, Marcus Aurelius to, you know, Putin to, you know, even, even Trump's biographies written by third parties are interesting in that they give some inkling…

▶ 41:14 Aristotle Koskinas Um, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was a Stoic himself, and he, and he, and you can see in his writings that he follows the tenets of the Stoic philosophy.

▶ 2:39 Ryan Holiday Uh, Marcus Aurelius was there, who I'd always liked the movie Gladiator, so I was like, oh, I'll get that too. 4 times in the scene

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