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The Greatest Stoic Argued That Kindness Is More Manly Than Anger

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The Greatest Stoic Argued That Kindness Is More Manly Than Anger

What the philosopher Marcus Aurelius believed about masculinity

Donald J. Robertson
Sep 22, 2019
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The Greatest Stoic Argued That Kindness Is More Manly Than Anger

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What the philosopher Marcus Aurelius believed about masculinity

A statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Just be one!

— Meditations, 10.16

Over the past few decades, there’s been a resurgence of interest in Stoicism. People often confuse stoicism (lower-case), a coping style that involves suppre…

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