1: Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius lived a hard, difficult life.
“He was not strong in body,” the Roman historian Dio Cassius writes, “and was involved in a multitude of troubles throughout practically his entire reign.”
Marcus was surrounded by death and dying.
He lost his father when he was three. In 149 AD, when he was twenty-eight, “he lost newborn twin boys,” Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman … continue reading
1: The Roman Emperor Hadrian once got so angry he stabbed a secretary in the eye with his writing stylus.
Were there consequences?
Of course not. He was the Emperor.
Not Marcus Aurelius. Coming to the throne just decades after Hadrian, Marcus took a different path. The Stoic philosophy path.
He “could have taken advantage of this freedom to behave as he liked,” Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman write … continue reading
