The Stoic Path: Echo of Marcus Aurelius (Part 1 of 12)

Cypress trees bend in the evening wind and recover, and twelve-year-old Marcus Aurelius starts to learn that Stoic philosophy isn't something you study but something you practice every hour.

Marcus's painting teacher Diognetus shows him that the trees bending outside the window hold more wisdom than memorized rhetoric. By evening he has three practices to try: observe one desire, perform one selfless action, question one inherited belief.

133 AD. Marcus Aurelius is 12. Near Rome.

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