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This is just such a fascinating experience. Other than Homer and the Bible, I believe this is the oldest literature I’ve read. Reading it sounds a lot like the vocabulary and mental processes of philosopher Jordan Peterson with the intimate, personal moral resolve of the (last) Puritan Johnathan Edwards and the written structure of the Apostle Paul—albeit Aurelius comes from a Roman Stoic worldview.
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“For he that is angry seems with a kind of grief and close contraction of himself, to turn away from reason; but he that sins through lust, being overcome by pleasure, doth in his very sin bewray a more impotent, and unmanlike disposition” (32).
— Nov 05, 2026 09:02PM
Renee M Young
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Book 1–fantastic!
I’ve gotten the Stoics wrong my entire life. I’ve always heard the Stoics to be emotionless robots, but reading a primary source, that’s inaccurate & unfair. Never’ve read anything so seemingly Christian that’s not, oddly Pauline!
Crazy he said to do away with books (1.1617,) but more in escapism mentality, similar to maybe social media/Netflix today
“Stop thinking, start doing”
— Oct 22, 2026 09:18PM
I’ve gotten the Stoics wrong my entire life. I’ve always heard the Stoics to be emotionless robots, but reading a primary source, that’s inaccurate & unfair. Never’ve read anything so seemingly Christian that’s not, oddly Pauline!
Crazy he said to do away with books (1.1617,) but more in escapism mentality, similar to maybe social media/Netflix today
“Stop thinking, start doing”