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Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
Roman prefect of Egypt, Gaius Galerius.
Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
Meditations
Tony Elgin • 2 cards
Marcus, wrote the historian Edward Gibbon, was the last of the Five Good Emperors (the other four being Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus) who ruled from 96–180 and brought about “the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.”
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Meditations
gabriel • 78 cards
“The first thing to do—don’t get worked up. For everything happens according to the nature of all things, and in a short time you’ll be nobody and nowhere, even as the great emperors Hadrian and Augustus are now. The next thing to do—consider carefully the task at hand for what it is, while remembering that your purpose is to be a good human being.
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