Very well said!

I dont get it

@@Mercutio1984 Go ahead and read Marcus Aurelius. Then you'll very likely get it.

@@Mercutio1984 lol FFS

@@Mercutio1984 basically "the people that can say 'it is what it is' and carry on with what's necessary are the strongest people."

I mean any leader who writes about their own personal psyche will be relatable to the average Joe since everyone has a similar psyche? Is it really that surprising

How is he powerful

@@Bob-qq4is You think my psyche is similar to yours? Friend, you still have more growing to do.

@@Nospoon53189 I mean ya write about the stuff you go through and problems you face and I guarantee you millions of people will be able to relate. The fact that a common citizen can relate to the most powerful person in the world isn’t surprising at all they’re both human and humans have a lot of similarities psychologically due to being the same species

except for invading northern Europe

What's the point of writing these quotes? The entire book is literally mindblowing in every passage.

@@eh7602 Friend, seriously? You think that everyone is familiar with Stoicism or his book? The reading of quotes often leads to the reading of books. All the best!

@@Belief_Before_Glory I'm sorry friend, I guess I was a bit cranky when I wrote that comment. You are absolutely right, I was just trying to say that there are so many worthwhile quotes in Meditations that I wouldn't know which one made me the most impact.

@@eh7602 No problem, friend; I understand. I've had my fair share of days where I was cranky 😊 And you're right about his book, it's a veritable treasure trove of wisdom. It's good to see that there's a revival of Stoicism lately. All the best!✨

"Find your safe space and gender pronouns" Modern Philosopher 2023

Admonishing? Wrong word bro

@@wadecampbell6319 fixed? And thank you

@@wadecampbell6319 Be more helpful maybe?

@@rahatahmed6188 that's why no one will remember your name

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will themselves also die very soon; then again also they who have succeeded them, until the whole remembrance shall have been extinguished as it is transmitted through men who foolishly admire and perish.

That’s absolutely correct. Most hosts try to keep the guest on a path they want, whereas Joe usually just lets them find the path.

There's so many examples of bad interviewing techniques on KZfaq where they speak over and finish the sentence of the person they are talking to. Joe just let's them nerd out which is great for us.

@@British-Dragon-Simulations Yes I agree. I heckle on Timcast for BeanieMan to let his GUESTS talk. That is why i tune in: the guests shape the show. Joe knows this! Johnny Carson knew this.

@@British-Dragon-Simulations Oh i dont know if it's up to "narcissisism" and other psychological factors. I wont go that far when i can say.. it's a difference of style about "my house my show my rules" philosophy. It is a Power Play to try to finish other's sentences. Joe's Power is having looooong running podcast, doing things that achieve it. Joe entertains me. His guests entertain and engage my mind. Tim is firm-in-Boss role. I dont think it's a permanent condition and he can learn and get better.

@@British-Dragon-Simulations your one of those people who gets all their pschology knowlege from quara

my man!

Same. I read Stocism a long time ago, but I've internalized alot of the ideas during the Pandemic. It's a really simple set of ideas, but you need to internalize them. The ideas about 'minding your thoughts' are especially important. Much of our suffering as a species is just anxiety over the future and melancholy about the past. Just letting those things go emotionally is liberating at a level that many people really don't appreciate. That doesn't mean you ignore the future, or the past. You need to plan for the future and you need to learn from the past. But you can do that without the emotional baggage. You don't need to ruminate. I simply choose not to ruminate. That alone has done wonders for my well being.

Wow for real? Why did it do that?

Yep it's definitely for high schoolers.

That’s a huge accomplishment! ✊🏻

Nice quote from Michael Sugrue haha

Possibly the greatest human being ever lived

Thank you for the comment it motivates one and puts things into perspective

Yes, I learned from him as well. Michael Sugrue was not the only one to believe Marcus Aurelius was the only true good emperor. Remember, there are more sources that KZfaq. @@JosephusAurelius

Which is what makes a man so great of course or being a former slave like Epictetus yeah loving and telling people how to live their life yeah blows me away

It's better to count it a blessing - everything in it's time, so to speak. To never read it at all would be a tragedy.

Most aren’t really receptive to learning such things before that age.

I learned about it age 33😢

I’m a HS teacher and my kids know their Marcus Aurelius.

@@RishPanjeetJr do they like it?

Very similar to Buddhist teachings. Fascinating . . . .

What's the book called?

@@chrisrolnaldo1221 He is probably referring to "Meditations", as is the guest . . . .

@@chadsknnr just making sure I got the right book title! Appreciate it

Any specific edition/translation that is recommended?

Read every philosopher from Ancient Greece, The psilosopher that created the Stoic school of thought is Epictitus. Its so sad that very phew people besides the Greeks , speak or understand greek because there are so many thing lost in translation.This applys to everything that is translated from its mother language to another.

Elon Musk is markis and his son is Comedus

@@makiska8440 I mean, Romans recognized greece as pinicle of philosophy, so we have a lot of work from them.

100% concur. 🪁 Psychology equals philosophy. If you can understand the concepts of the greats and what was in their depths of their soul, I believe ALL psychologist would be out of business. 🤡. Teach your children with compassion.🪁 Compassion… Passion..Passionate.. powerful words 🪁 Teach them very young I’m talking between the ages of one and four, to be kind first and then be clever.🪁

Epictetus was the original....

Also: "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

That quote is so useless

​@@stevenwillard9754 the irony is, your comment is much more useless

Empty, pompous nonsense 😅. You coulda picked so many meaningful, applicable quotes.

Is this whom you speak kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZqldNaH29rVeYU.htmlsi=OPXvgaIs-1Eus7su ?

Well said, Carl.

Hmm

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Marcus Aurelius had to turn to his philosophy due too the tumultuous events of his time, two wars (Parthia and Germania) a brutal plague, and betrayal by his wife Fastina and general Avudious Cassius. Marcus is the last of five so-called good emperor of Rome.

Sexuality is natural. Its like saying you are not happy because you dont share my exact same View. And claiming you cannot see the Beauty of Nature around you. ""all out for themselves wasting their lives away"" People can say and claim the same think about anyone, even Marcus. Your logic is flawed.

And he never cared to be famous or have his journal read.

Always praising the greeks but not their neighbours who contributed alot of good things also. The

Joey Diaz >

So, he was maybe one of the first sigma males?

*Rogan

He inspired me to study the life of anxient stoics..

The human's mind and emotion set, of course it applies

@@Intellistan true but there’s def a shift in conscious for 90 percent of people

Being modern doesn’t make it better. This is relevant today because it’s Truth. I’m he ancient Roman’s were once “modern” people. 1,000 years from now, we will be ancient people.

Same is true with the bible

@@augustusbus5344 no

They were modern, we use their civil law till today. They had slaves yeah, but we have everything pretty much the same. Contracts, obligations, divorce. The list go on and on.

They’re not modern. They’re ancient, even more so than Marcus Aurelius himself. He speaks to the human experience that is constant across epochs.

sorry, saying his ideas are modern is trash. the world of people in his age was nothing like ours or of the modern age. there was no industrialization, there was no idea of authenticity or individualism, there were no social media. no electricity etc. his life was completely different to ours.

​​@@olfrud What? My man, people 2000 years ago were not _that_ different than people of today. Technology and industrialization changed a lot about society but not in the way you're describing. It hasn't been long enough. It seems to me your sense of time, from the standpoint of history and culture, is off.

@@mamaharumi thinking the same as you

📩

Yeah bit of a "special moment" for our beloved Joe there 😂

lmfao

Yeah, Ryan did so well to not drop him in that! No ego there, ha ha. He definitely walks the walk!

Yeah we all saw that coming...

True. I've seen mother's kill there kids. No difference.

@@juliobarrios2520come on man we heard more man kill more women and children

@@boopoo4317 True. Both sides kill. Never bias.

Most regular woman are horrible mothers.

I would like but. I want the 69 to last as long as it may

Marcus' Aurelius ancestry originally came from Spain (paternal grandfather was a Senator from a Spanish province - marrying into Roman nobility) so there is that link.

@@redsnflr that is a great piece of history I did not know! Thank you for sharing that with me.

@@CourageousMind247 Marcus is quite common in Spain in some provinces who are not into the Castillan variant Marcos, so it will look nice Marcus Padilla, btw yes, Marcus as some others emperors were from noble families from Iberia, actually Iberia was one of the most important and influential regions of the Empire.

Guess what my name is, too. And I'm just an average Welsh man in Wales.

@Bon Goaie way off topic, sir. 👎 gtfoh

Still doesn't explain a psychopathic child.

it makes a lot of sense.

Maybe if they made time to be better fathers they wouldn't have had to of been so busy in the first place. A child isn't just something that you make and then you're done with it. A child is your legacy, not your "work". It's why Gandhi and Churchill are remembered as being of their time, while Trump's name has been living on throughout over a century, and will continue to with Trump Jr.

Agreed. For me, Elon Musk immediately came to mind. If Musk works even half as much as he claims, I don't see how he has time for fathering his many children with multiple women. I guess we'll see how they turn out.

@@bud389 interesting view

I fully agree. Fathers have a bigger impact that people do not seem to understand. Without a father, the way you are, behavior, respect, gratitude, and showing matters is very different. When your father passes away, you will fully realize how important they were in your life. Respect your father, and thank god everyday that your father is there with you.

nayim from the halfway line

work smart, not hard

@@dys1525 work smart, and hard.

We must be willing to admit those truths we deny ourselves in order to become those fathers we want for our children. The person we lie to the most is usually ourselves. We know what we need to do. I’m glad more people are waking up to being humble and honest with themselves and the people around them, no matter how society is trying to shape them.

Hi, I can really relate to that. You have vastly different ability to understand things like this when you have life experiences behind you. I have to read this now. Ciao!

One bad thing about literature in school is not reading the whole book from cover to cover and then beginning to write essays about the book. In my school the students were told to read a chapter and then we'd have to write about it and stuff. Luckily I already read the book like a year before so I digested it the way the writer wanted. Books are meant to be read from cover to cover first in my opinion (especially with fiction) and that seems to be what didn't happen with you, you read and translated parts of it but not reading it first. Luckily you went back to it and read it how it should be read.

@@dabtican4953 I'll give you some context. In my kind of school, when they made us translate Marcus Aurelius the intent was just linguistic: it was a technical translation exercise from classical Greek into Italian. Since a great part of original, available sources in Greek are philosophers, it often happened to deal with Aristotle, Plato and so on. Same thing with historians: I had to translate a great deal of Xenophon or Plutarch (way easier to translate than philosophers). They very seldom gave us poets or tragedians like Aeschylus or Sophocles (too hard to translate for unexperienced students). So the purpose was just to see the grammar we were taught about put into practice. At the same time though, we had philosophy and history lessons that gave us the philosophical context of those excerpts, the general thought landscape and actual historical events that made up the environment the texts we were translating were written into. Still, when you're a teenager you find it hard to really appreciate what you're reading sometimes, you simply don't have the tools to really understand some human dynamics only life and time can give you. In other words: are there 17-year-old students who really understand and appreciate Dostoevskij, for example? Very few 😀😉

@@Adamski727 Yes, you definitely have to 🙂

@@GiampietroDiSanto Ah I did my Spanish speaking test about Crime and Punishment, my Spanish teacher also read it and liked it, probably why Spanish is the only subject I got an A* in. That's the only Dostoyevsky book I've read though. And that's good at least the philosophy and history lessons gave an insight

where is that meditation?

@@oranges557 Meditations* is the name of MA's journals that have been collected and assembled into a book. It's not a single meditation.

Finding Stoicism generally did that for me.

You needed Jesus fuq what a man said. Go get God

Same… my fear of death was disruptive and has since dissipated

😎

🥶

You watch too much TV

Really? Tell me me more... I might give it a look

Yea e too! which translation did you read?

@@cody9419 I came to it with not many expectations except knowing it was regarded as a "classic", and that I might have to put effort into reading it since it might be written in an old type of style. But once I started reading it, it just felt so fresh and modern, I kinda got sucked in. Parts of it were difficult and challenging. Some parts are slightly abstract ancient philosophy, but I worked my way around it by pondering them and searching meaning as metaphors. But the most difficult was when it meditates on how short life is and how soon everyone will be forgotten, and how tiny we all are. But in the end I came out with such a will to live for each second, and more than that: to live and carry myself with *virtue*. To just be a good person, do my part, and then let whatever come my way. It also gave me such a power to free myself of other people's opinions, and painful thoughts. One thing, that he got from Epictetus, always stays with me: "It is not things that upset us, but our judgements about those things". Can you imagine more empowering words to make bad memories f--- off? These hurtful memories have no more power over you than you give them. Sorry for the long text, I'm sure it was a bit more than you asked for.

@@DigitalPistonOfficial I actually read a translation that wasn't English, but fortunately one that was very skilled AND not pretentiously "archaic/poetic" (Like "art thou" type stuff with unusual syntax). It was just straight forward and natural, which let me come so up close and personal with Marcus and his mind... I bought several of Holiday's books though, and loved them, like "Lives of the Stoics" and Daily Stoic, and saw his recommendation of Hays, so I got that for my English version :)

welcome to stoicism :) if youre doing it right, even a violent death and loss of all you have, or even being thrown into hell itself .. cant hurt you

@Stringfellow Hawk it's not "luck", it's taking action to change yourself.

Hey, man, thats great. Do you have any advice for the youngsters trying to improve?

@@arturonavarropovedano2396 One thing that helped me was to see everything as a challenge to me to do my best. Simple, I know, but I realized that if I broke things down in increments and challenged myself to do those things, it started getting better. For example, the day I decided to take action I had a pile of dishes in the sink. I dreaded doing them. My dishwasher was broken and I was lazy. So, that day I decided to do it. I separated the plates, bowls, cups, and silverware into groups. I filled the sinks and I started challenging myself to get the bowls as clean as possible and then move on. Just that tiny accomplishment started everything. Silly as it might sound.

What business did you start?

@@dbolt007 The community newspaper in the town I live in now went defunct and the community wanted it again due to the fact that we are a tourist attraction, so I started a new one. I have years of experience in that area and had just been working a normal job until this happened. I think my choices put me in the right place at the right time.

Does he have a platform I follow him back, I need to drink into his knowledge.

Yah but I like the answer he gave, most great men are too busy tending to their own posterity and greatness to be great fathers.

@@joebaxter6895 I loved that response because it was probably true

I thought you meant heartbreaking because Joaquin Phoenix ended up killing him, then I remembered that part of the film wasn't true at all, he died of measles probably.

@@Wyzzkyd and when Marcus died he was not sad. He was relieved. For nineteen years he was Emperor, and he could do any evil he wanted but he never gave into temptation. When he died, he died happy knowing he does not have to resist temptation anymore and he can finally rest.

Maybe his wife turned his son bitter towards his father for being absent in their life.

I agree as a history major, it’s insane how we are lucky to me living in a time with so much access to things around the world which happened throughout centuries and civilizations

I love that. I read the book 3 times. Its just so amazing that we can see a situation thats 2000 years ago by a great mind. Its soo far apart. Almost feels like teleportation to their realm. I wish there more of these types of books and notes

Mind control exposed! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipyapKugm56ydI0.html

You can thank the Arab kings, Turkish sultans and the moors for translating Latin and Greek to the modern tongue of the day when they ruled over most of North Africa, europe was and all the way to turkey, they had access to all the ancient Greek text in the the great Alexandria library especially great works like the illiad and the odyssey, Aristotle and platos works etc imagine if those got lost to time.. alot did though when the great Alexandria library was burned down.. We lost alot of human knowledge like how the pyramids were officially built in those text that burned and are lost to time now

Its crazy too because Marcus Aurelius never wanted these to be shared, he wanted them burned after he passed away.

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got excited seeing him in the thumbnail

Yeah, he is not so stoic about it.

eh it's kind of annoying, like he's trying to sell us what he's talking about. just say it and let what you say hold it's own merit.

@@akjohnny5997 I wouldn't look at it that way. I think he's passionate, and that comes off as "I believe it, so you should too". I feel like his major goal is letting people know about this philosophy so it can carry on into the future and last another 2,000 years.

They want workers and ppl to buy stuff. To keep the "machine" going. They don't want free thinkers

What other philosophers....put me on some

It’s taught in colleges

It used to be taught in high school not So Much Anymore

Okay cool idgaf let me know names

Also check out senecas work

Meditations. A timeless book all people should read for themselves.

Visit his bronze statue for me!

It's good to see people with such different political views get along

I think his books suck, but he has given the original works on stoicism a lot of publicity.

💯

Don't argue what it is to be a man, be one

he was such a alpha male

Pretty sure that's an Epictetus quote. "I must die, but must I die bawling?" is how it's translated in the version I have.

@@mworkman3375 @M Workman33 That's a good possibility. Their philosophy is so similar though their backgrounds are from completely opposite side to each other. Like Michael Sugrue so well put it, " Even though Epictetus was a slave and Marcus Aurelius was an emperor, if they would've met they would've had a mutual respect to each other because they both understood that key to life is to have an orderly soul ".

@@mworkman3375 Again paraphrasing of course.

@@Endgame707 ...He was Emperor of Rome. Second Century AD. One of the 5 "good" Emperors. Picked for the role not born to it. Still, he was Roman, not from Spain.

Tell that to the inhabitants of Pompeii lol. Or the Dinosaurs or, or…. Etc. etc.

Reminds me of a Quran Verse. Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear” (2:286)

God gives you what you can handle

@@jgreezy1484 Death is something we all bear too.

stolen & recycled from the Bible

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNOjodx8qZqrY2g.html is finally here

@Neutral Is the dialogue in the review section? Or in the book?

Did he choose you???

Claudius should be in that list in my opinion.

All very good points!

You didn’t have to be rich to have a toilet, they had public bath houses with toilets and running water that washed the shit out of the city

Ahhh glad someone said it 😅

Mike Duncan is amazing.

I know right?😂

Care to explain? I'm not criticizing, just curious.

@@markguyver1211 There were previously co emperors/2 rulers of Rome and also there was loosely plumbing / toilets

@@markguyver1211 That was so considerate of you to be sure the other person doesn’t think you’re being critical. It’s so small but can really affect people. I’m going to do the same, thank you for the reminder to be aware! I’m kind of a jerk but I’m working on it, so thanks again!

I do the same and agree 💯 that we should teach this in schools! Wish I had this teaching growing up.

If you aren't homeschooling your children today, they won't have much of a tomorrow.

I'm not sure Joe reads this.

@@lukogibbz3672 he probably doesn't but I'm still expressing gratitude.

A large part of that is because he died at Marathon during the battle.

@@FellsApprentice He did not die at Marathon, that is wrong. He died in Sicily decades later.

@@FellsApprenticehis brother died at Marathon

I facepalmed at that.. Joe is such a dummy sometimes.. did he think he wrote in modern English 2,000 years ago? Lol..wtf..

He might mean his ideas, but with stoned joe you never know.

Haha. I thought that as well. Was definitely scratching my head on that one.

Lol, I don’t think Joe is normally as dumb as he was in that moment. It seems like he really thought he was reading the words exactly as written by Marcus Aurelius.

Really? How so? I might look at it....

I dont trust anyone who says favourite. I prefer favorite. AND COLOR NOT COLOUR AND CHECK NOT CHEQUE

@@bobbyboucher1936 mate not everyone lives in America land

Epictetus was the original....

@@chrisasterion5050 it doesn't change the fact he was baller tho

All there ideas are rediscovered ideas from civilisations that were destroyed and forgotten. We have been more advanced than we are now, this is something people are not willing to accept yet.

@@chrisasterion5050 True. Based on their translated writings, I respect them both . . . .

I dont know if they were ahead of their time so much as what they wrote is timeless. Universally human. They just wrote eloquently about the human condition. Are brains dont evolve enough in 2000 years to be that different. Our external environment may be different but the synapses fire the same way.

Honestly I would recommend "Meditations: A New Translation" by Robin Waterfield. It's the most modern, and most researched translation of Marcus's writing to date.

Yes, a philosophy that teaches one to murder your rivals and that suicide is useful is the bomb!

@@Bollibompa it reaally is useful, honestly. A big component of stoicism is facing the world with the most realistic view possible. Sometimes that involves the need for you to crush your enemy totally. Otherwise they will crush you.

@@DrGetgood No, compassion and understanding is the key. You are craving wanton aggression and caveman, tribal behavior.

@@Bollibompa that’s not stoicism guy

Thanks for sharing.

Um...maybe ALL young people should be encouraged to explore Stoicism. Very valuable lessons/reflections & guidance for life that applies to young women also (& however you define yourself).

@@susanboyles3460 absolutely I wholeheartedly agree, young women should read it as well. I just think young men waste so much of their potential on arbitrary things. Young women on the other hand typically mature faster than men, and spend their time more wisely when it comes to school, work, and relationships. So I think young men need a larger emphasis in today’s climate when it comes to responsibility and discipline.

I believe everybody should read it regardless of gender, its teaches disciplane, hard word, courage, inner peace. Brother I'm 18 and kind of confused about carrier. Can you tell how come you managed to not only own bussiness and house but also get married. I am amazed as at 18 I could never think of getting married so early.

@@isaacm1246 You are absolutely right about women. Women surely mature faster than men in general, my cousin she is only 3 years older than me (I'm 18) and she has a daughter,she also studies law in uni. She manages everything very effieciently and is good with money. She handles responsibilty better than many men older than her.

Such a great point and I totally agree. And he’s a great conversationalist too, clearly, which is a nice change up from the typical mouthy podcaster these days, addicted to hearing themselves talk.

It was a decent podcast but they ended up talking about everything other then marcus

Holiday has TDS, a dude that prefers Baiden over Trumph is far from stoic

What is the overall theme of the podcast? Is this guy some Rome expert or something?

@@VeritasIncrebresco and wtf does that have to do with Marcus Aurelius lmao

Those weren’t “his teachings”. Marcus was a student of the greek philosophers, his writings were likely his way of memorizing greek stoic philosophy

I CAN wait cause fuck spotify, it's a shitty app and Joe sold out!

name of the book? the daily stoic ?

What do you do for work bro? I'm thinking about studying that too but is it financially viable?

@@trigger0403 art, music or philosophy may not make economic sense to study, but they make for a rich life. I’ve seen so many people pursue a life of high earning, only to hang themselves or shoot themselves at 40.

I understand but at the same time I'd like to be comfortable too

The world needs Stoicism right now more than it ever has. It is the opposite of woke!

@@trigger0403 I’m in law school. Looking to do energy law with a focus in contracts and mergers and acquisitions. Legal work for import export contracts for natural gas and renewable energy infrastructure companies. It’s interesting stuff, relevant to saving the world, let’s me live in the south where people aren’t on my ass telling me and my future kids that we are racist shameful bigots (I’m a moderate), and best of all it should make me over 150k out of law school. Now it isn’t easy, and you have to do very well in school, which I did and still do, but again it is difficult but that is how we stoics enjoy it to be. Good luck. I also studied political science at a school in DC so career paths are more legit there. Do not major in philosophy. Major in political science and go to law school or move to dc and do policy somewhere, do a philosohy minor. There are no careers in philosohy but it teaches you to write very well and it shows you are challenging yourself in law school transcripts because the classes are hard but rewarding. Good luck.

The Bible is better

📥👆

Iron maiden? Excellent!

I just started reading it and it´s mind blowing...also: people were the same back then as today!

I keep it handy and pick it up when I’m down. A great book to have lying around.

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Try diogenes

@@rabbychan Or Proclus.

Doing Gods work. Nice one.

I'll have that pistol Bob. Why then Bill, you would leave me at the mercy of my enemies.......Are you talking about the queen again!!!! On independence day! - hey, what a coincidence, its independence day!! 😉😉

Met Richard Harris many many years ago at rugby match here in Ireland. I was seated beside him in stands and his language was not what Marcus would of approved of lol 🤣

I did not know richard Harris was dumbledore, my god now i see it lol thank you

O'Toole shit out and did Troy. However him and Harris are GOATs. Hellraisers.

Have power over your mind And you will gain strength!!! It is easy to remember it! Ten words, ten fingers! Make it into mantra!

ugh, um eat beef, shoot deer, smoke dope, ugh, ugh- duuuuude

How did your younger sister manage to influence your own opinion ? Lol

@@TW7S95 and to be fair to Joe, I don't think he considers himself as such! I appreciate that he is willing to listen to everyone.

Hi there! I have those books as well. The Meditations is my number one book.

Why are there so many spam bots here ffs ???

Premeditatio Malorum - Negative visualisation

Marcus Aurelius had to turn to his philosophy due too the tumultuous events of his time, two wars (Parthia and Germania) a brutal plague, and betrayal by his wife Fastina and general Avudious Cassius. Marcus is the last of five so-called good emperor of Rome.

Where can I buy the book??

True what you speak of...you are wise

What’s the name of the right book… there’s a lot Marcus Aurelius books???

One of the mosr well-known books ever that everybody recommends. You act like it's some unknown book

@ABU I'm 100% not clicking on your link

I think he once said he failed as father, and then was choked to death.

I immediately thought of Elon Musk

It's true. My dad is someone that I and most people that know him consider him to be a great man. An excellent business man, a man of knowledge, excellent communicator, hardest worker in the room and a go getter. But he never made the same effort with his kids. He always chose work and still does at 60+ I've always resented him for that because I made alot of mistakes in life that could have been avoided if maybe he were more present and available. But as I grew up I understood that it's just the way that he is. He is also human at the end of the day and was brought up a certain way. My dad has taught me how NOT to be with my children when it comes to this. But he has also taught me so many other things that will help me on my path to greatness

This fool thinks Winston Churchill is a good person! He’s a lifelong equivalent to what hitler became.

Me too, powerful stuff

So you read the book and weren't depressed?

@@user-on2ys9jr6t basically. It just tells you to stop worrying so fucking much🤷

@@user-on2ys9jr6t It helped me massively along the way, combined with medicine and therapy.

You saved yourself from depression

Lol 😂 give him a break dawg, we all have brain farts once in a while. To be fair, I thought the same thing as you also .

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FUCKING SPAM BOTS - Don’t reply to either of these! Make sure you report them though.👍🏼

I agree. The spam bots are preying on innocent people who trust. I am grateful white hats exist; otherwise, I would say we should hire serial killers to go after these pieces of shit scammers.