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In Meditations, the word “city” can literally refer to Rome or another city, but it can also symbolize the world as a whole. This is connected to the Stoic philosophical view that parts combine…
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Marcus Aurelius occasionally refers to human life as a voyage or waterborne journey to symbolize the brevity and instability of human life. Fittingly, Marcus is writing in the last years of his life, and he…
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