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The Secrets Behind Marcus Aurelius Meditations Unveiled in this Episodic Drama!
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a tyrant or a dishonest judge, but by nature who first invited you in. Why is that so terrible? Like the impresario ringing down the curtain on an actor. But I've only gotten through three acts. There's this great dialogue and meditations with Marcus and himself. Yes, this will be a drama in three acts and the length fixed by the power that directed your creation and now directs your dissolution. So this ties us back to the purpose of meditations. You'll notice a lot of the parts of meditations are just verbatim quotes. And other times they're just paraphrasing of things where they're allusions to quotes that classicists would recognize. You could argue that meditations is a kind of commonplace book. And Marcus has filled many, many note cards in my commonplace book. But the idea that what Marcus is doing is writing down quotes to himself so he can remember them, so they can get sort of absorbed into a system, is a key part of this book. Book 11 is page 157 on Gregory Hayes. For you are but a slave and have no claim to the logos. Just a quote. But my heart rejoiced. Just a quote. No thefts of free will. It's a quote from Epictetus. There's a story, a friend comes over to Marcus's house and Marcus is