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Jun 2023
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Everything Marcus Learned From Antoninus

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Happy Father’s Day to everyone!

It’s pretty incredible how concise Marcus Aurelius is throughout Meditations. There are nearly 500 passages throughout, and rarely is a passage longer than a few sentences.

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