Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-10-26
Books mentioned on The Past Is Looking Brighter All The Time
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Ryan Holiday discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a foundational collection of personal reflections and Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor.
Discussed“If meditations is antiquity, the Soviet dissident Joseph Brodsky once said, then it is we who are the ruins.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Republic
“He was a man, Cicero would say, who acted as if he lived in Plato's Republic, not among the dregs of Romulus.”
Plugged Lives of the Stoics
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