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written to himself, never meant to be published by the closest thing humanity had to Plato's "philosopher-king". it felt up-lifting reading this, but these are notes from throughout of his life and there are a lot of repetitiveness stemming from this, i assume. (the notes were ordered/categorized into books[chapters] after his death). must read if you are interested in stoicism
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Diary of a Roman Emperor. Consists of many of his thoughts, worldview and the occasional piece of wisdom that is still applicable to this day and age.
(I'm so sorry Marcus girly. I think you'd hate the sheer amount of dudebro-podcast men who are idolizing your diary because they are obssessed with stoicism in a "I-need-to-hustle-and-supress-all-my-emotions" kind of way.)
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bladeey's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 75%

Cuck bible

i'm too much of a hedonist to fully absorb stoicism but valuable nuggets to take away.
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