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He spent years as a wandering philosopher in exile, and returned to tell the emperors what they were doing wrong.
The Roman Socrates. He taught that philosophy is practice, not theory, and that women should study it too.
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Musonius Rufus Stoic teacher in Rome Dio Chrysostom — Dio was associated with Musonius Rufus in Rome and carried his practical Stoicism into public oratory, turning moral instruction into speeches a crowd would stay to hear.
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“Poverty does not hinder a man from living a life worthy of a free person, if he is willing to work with his own hands.”
“The good king holds his subjects' welfare to be his own proper work.”
“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes quickly, but the good endures.”
“Women as well as men have received from the gods the gift of reason.”
Key Moments
c. 40 CE
Born in Prusa
c. 82 CE
Banished by Domitian
96 CE
Restored under Nerva and Trajan
c. 30 CE
Born in Volsinii
c. 60 CE
Teaching in Rome
c. 65 CE
Exiled by Nero
c. 70 CE
That Women Should Study Philosophy
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