Accepting Death and Living Well According to Marcus Aurelius

This Roman emperor understood the key to happiness

Jacob Wilkins
4 min readNov 20, 2020

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Image by Gerd Altmann (Pixabay)

Plato wanted philosophers to be rulers, but this dream never came to fruition in his own lifetime. Five-hundred years after Plato’s death, however, Marcus Aurelius became ruler of the Roman Empire in 161 AD.

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Jacob Wilkins