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Michael McGill 🏛 Profile picture
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Sep 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
My favorite Marcus Aurelius passage contains three Core Principles of #Stoicism

-Objectivity
-Unselfishness
-Acceptance

A few brief thoughts and Tweets I have sent on each of these Principles.

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Objectivity

Don't be lead around by your emotions.

Look at life objectively and choose the best response.

Our ability to choose lies in the space between stimulus and response.

Create that space.

Unselfishness

Do a kind deed, that only benefits another, without any thought of yourself.

Don't be too wrapped up in yourself and your problems.

Take a look around you.

Who needs help?

Go help them.

Acceptance

Accept whatever happens to you.

You can still act to influence what you can.

But it all starts with Acceptance.

Accept --> Act --> Accept --> Act --> Accept ...

And on and on.

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He spared defeated enemies and forgave traitors. Rome called it clementia, the noblest trait of a victor.

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For nearly 1,000 years Rome worshipped the old gods.

Then, on this day in 312 AD, Constantine witnessed a vision in the night sky that changed the course of world history.

Here is the story of the battle that turned pagan Rome into Christian Rome. ✝️🏛️🧵 Image
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Oct 18
Before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, before the Republic gasped its last breath, two men showed Rome what civil war would look like:

Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

Friends. Colleagues. Then bitter enemies who turned Rome’s streets into a bloody battlefield. ⚔️🏛️🧵 Image
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He created soldiers whose loyalty was to a general, not the state. Image
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Oct 12
In 1863, deep in the countryside north of Rome, workers unearthed a marble statue in the villa of Livia, wife of the first emperor.

It would become the defining image of Roman power:

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Rome, 63 BC.

The Roman Republic is in a state of unrest and turmoil. Into the chaos steps a patrician with nothing to lose, and a "new man" with everything to gain.

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Assassinate leading senators, burn Rome, cancel debts, and seize power.

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In the 4th century, Christianity was rising fast in the Roman Empire.

But one emperor tried to turn back the tide and restore the old gods. His name was Julian.

History remembers him as Julian the Apostate.

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