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Stoicism, From a Slave and an Emperor
The same philosophy worked from the bottom of Rome to the very top.
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher who governed the Roman Empire from 161 to 180 AD.
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Zeno of Citium
Zeno of Citium was a Hellenistic philosopher from Cyprus who founded the Stoic school of philosophy around 300 BC.
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Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who taught that suffering comes from trying to control external events rather than our own actions.
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Gaius Musonius Rufus
Gaius Musonius Rufus was a 1st-century Roman Stoic philosopher who taught Epictetus and advocated equal philosophical education for women.
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Seneca the Younger Seneca the Younger was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, and imperial advisor who managed Emperor Nero while writing major moral texts.
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Cato the Younger
Cato the Younger was an influential, uncompromising Roman senator and Stoic philosopher during the fall of the Roman Republic.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations as a private journal of Stoic reflections while running the Roman Empire and leading military campaigns.