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The Daily Stoic · August 22, 2026 · 26m
The Marcus Aurelius Quote Steven Pressfield Couldn't Ignore
Ryan Holiday talks with Steven Pressfield about the Marcus Aurelius line "Life is warfare and a journey far from home." The conversation begins with that quote as the epigraph to Pressfield's new novel The Arcadian and expands into the hero's journey, the ideas people carry for decades, and reincarnation.
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The conversation turns to the hero's journey as a way of understanding Marcus Aurelius's line about life being warfare and a journey far from home.
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