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The Meditations, Decoded — Part V: Book Five, On Getting Up Anyway

The Meditations, Decoded · A twelve-part reading of Marcus Aurelius · Part V of XII Book Four built the citadel — the retreat a…

9 September 2026 · 10 min read
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Sleep as a Stoic Discipline, Part IV: Tracking What Actually Matters
The Stoics tracked themselves every single day of their lives, with no device, no app, and no score.…
19 Aug 20267 min read
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Cato the Younger and the Price of Integrity
There are men who compromise. There are men who don’t. The second kind are harder to live with…
16 Aug 20269 min read
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Letters to Lucilius — Part I: On the Shortness of Time
Letters to Lucilius · A reading of Seneca’s Epistulae Morales · Part I of VIII Seneca wrote 124…
12 Aug 20268 min read
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Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Art of Imagining the Worst
The practice that looks like pessimism and works like armour. Seneca wrote a letter to Lucilius that begins…
22 Jul 20269 min read
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Sleep as a Stoic Discipline — Part II: The Science of Recovery
What actually happens while you sleep — and what you permanently lose when you don’t. Sleep as a…
12 Jul 20269 min read
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