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Dec 24, 2018·1 min read

Touche’.

I’d take it a step further and call them “pseudo intellectual junk food.”

Great piece! Stoicism is anything but inaction. 👏

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Mama, writer, lover, fighter — I wear my heart on my sleeve because my pants pockets are too small. www.ajkaywriter.com

Marcus Aurelius is far too often quoted out of context. Pithy motivational statements are intellectual junk food. Aurelius was rigorously schooled in Stoic philosophy, and as a bone fide philosopher the emperor de…

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