Becoming Stoic
Discussion · XLI · Book IV
On not needing an audience
Why the most-quoted passage in Meditations is the one most often misread, and what changes when you read it as a private note instead of advice.
August 7, 2026
48:12
Transcript · in preparation
Recorded live on Friday with questions from the week’s readers. We spend most of the hour on IV.17 and the two passages either side of it, which nobody quotes and which change the reading considerably.