Meditations

Where it came up

• The Daily Stoic · What’s Actually Stopping You From Doing Your Best Work · at 52:08 · 2026-08-22

  “I wrote down this passage in meditations and I thought oh there's something here.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · How To Deal With Difficult People · at 5:21 · 2026-08-15

  “Marcus Aurelius's meditations the the the primary text in Stoic philosophy”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · 11 Final Takeaways From The Odyssey · at 33:44 · 2026-08-04

  “There's this quote in Meditations about how the best revenge is to not be like that.”Discussed

• Modern Wisdom · “One Year Ago I Was In My Parents’ Basement” - Jett Franzen · at 1:17:26 · 2026-07-30

  “I ended up reading meditations by Marcus Reelis and I was like wow like this is this is incredible.”Recommended

• The Daily Stoic · The Decay Of Decency With Ezra Klein · at 1:06:43 · 2026-07-25

  “Perhaps there's never been more important and impactful words ever written and they were written by one of the most powerful leaders.”Recommended

• The Shawn Ryan Show · Ryan Holiday - Watch This If You Have a Negative Mind | SRS #321 · at 1:24 · 2026-07-13

  “this year got uh Marcus Aurelius's book on stoicism”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · 6 Stoic Rules To Beat Ego · at 6:42 · 2026-07-13

  “He actually addresses it in Meditations. He says, "Consider that before long you'll be nobody, just like Hadrian, just like Augustus." He said, "So live and act with humility."”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · Senator Mark Kelly on Stoicism, Space, and Staying Calm Under Pressure · at 24:48 · 2026-06-10

  “I'm curious what you thought. I'm going to read you these quick passages cuz it sounds like he has. These are all in book seven, three in a row.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · How To Think Better in the Age of AI (From the Stoics) · at 2:02 · 2026-05-11

  “Marcus Aurelius also writes in Meditations about going directly to the seat of knowledge.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · 40 Hidden Lessons From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations · at 0:00 · 2026-04-27

  “This is Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world. But there are secrets, there are lessons inside this book that went way over my head.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · The 5-Step Stoic Routine For Thinking Clearly | Maria Semple on the Daily Stoic Podcast · at 3:00 · 2026-04-22

  “One of my favorite passages in Meditations where Marcus Aurelius is observing all these beautiful things in nature that actually aren't that beautiful.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · The Best Passages From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations Read by Ryan Holiday · at 0:00 · 2026-04-19

  “I'm talking of course about Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, private thoughts of the emperor of Rome. And I love this book. I've read it more than a hundred times. Every time I read it, I get something new out of it.”Recommended

• The Daily Stoic · 31 of the absolute BEST lessons from Marcus Aurelius · at 0:00 · 2026-04-13

  “This book, right here, has been the guide for presidents and generals and leaders for almost 20 centuries. Theodore Roosevelt carried it with him.”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · What To Do When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned | Jim Collins on the Daily Stoic Podcast · at 33:41 · 2026-04-12

  “One of the fundamental ironies of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is you're reading a book that is still a bestseller 2,000 years after it was written”Discussed

• Lex Fridman Podcast · Vikings, Ragnar, Berserkers, Valhalla & the Warriors of the Viking Age | Lex Fridman Podcast #495 · at 2:00:21 · 2026-04-09

  “You should read the Meditations because this is not just some dry whatever talking to himself. It's a human talking about being human.”Recommended

• The Daily Stoic · Arthur Brooks' Ultimate Philosophy Masterclass | The Daily Stoic Podcast · at 24:27 · 2026-03-28

  “you read something in Meditations and you go that's a beautiful idea and you don't realize that's them riffing on other ideas that came before”Discussed

• The Daily Stoic · The Complete Stoic Playbook To MASTER Your Emotions · at 7:31 · 2026-03-02

  “In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius says, You assemble your life action by action, step by step.”Discussed

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