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Marcus Aurelius AI: How I Used It to Rescue the Emperor

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For years, I couldn’t get past page 10 of Meditations. I knew the wisdom was there—the most powerful man in the world, writing private notes to keep himself sane during plagues and invasions. I needed that. But I kept hitting a wall. The Victorian translations with their “thees” and “thous” turned Marcus into a cold … Read more

Why Modern English?

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Most people think they know Marcus Aurelius. They see the marble statues—cold, distant, and perfect. But Marcus didn’t write Meditations for a museum. He wrote it in a tent, on the edge of a plague-ridden empire, to keep himself from breaking while ruling under the pressure of barbarian invasions. He wasn’t writing philosophy for the … Read more