The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-26 · 17 min · 2,887 words

Inside the Final Years of Marcus Aurelius

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. You know, Marx really spent most of his life thinking about death, and I don't just mean in some abstract philosophical way. I mean he lived with it.

His father died when he was young, several of his children died when he was young. His brother, his co emperor Lucius Verus died, his wife died. He lived through plague, he lived through war. He he lived through an amount of death that most of us can't even imagine.

I was just in Rome and you could see Hadrian's tomb, right? He sees where he's going to be put when his time is through. Hadrian is buried there. It's an enormous mausoleum. Antoninus

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