Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong
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That's actually kind of sad. Hopefully times have changed since then.
It's my understanding that Marcus Aurelius no longer voices this opinion.
And the people who preserved his words to reach us were more like wise men who watched the skies and solved the puzzle of cheaply distributing text, than like emperors or philosophers.