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The contrast between his adopted father and who IIRC was his grandfather, is quite notable. He writes of the virtues of his father a lot and I think he uses him as inspiration. Yet his grandfather, who's name escapes me, was far different. Prone to anger, would execute senators that opposed him...

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Well to put it simply, stoics do not supress emotions. They use several techniques to view them differently. Externals aren't good or bad. Your opinions of those things are good or bad. They do leave room for preference. Wealth is preferable to poverty, but poverty isn't necessarily bad. In...

Oh man am I happy to find this thread. I've just read 4 books on stoicism and am reading a book on Marcus now called "how to think like a Roman emperor" Once I get time to read this I'll probably have some decent input. Stoicism is a life and mind changing philosophy. I write my own...