119: A Paucity of Sycophants
English Vocab by Victorprep
Sam Fold
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The words for today are: Insinuate, Sycophant, Jingoism, Paucity
Featuring a quote from Marcus Aurelius: "Meditations"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, happy Monday. This is Sam and this is episode 119 of the Victor Prep |
| 0:08.6 | vocabulary podcast and I'm going to start today with a quote and since this is |
| 0:15.4 | a Monday and I know that many of you listening are about to start your week at |
| 0:21.3 | work or an office of some kind or school or something like that and you may |
| 0:26.8 | encounter people who annoy you or bother you at work or at school and so I |
| 0:33.9 | have a quote today from Marcos Orilius from his meditations and this |
| 0:39.2 | quote is around the sort of people we might meet that we won't have positive |
| 0:44.8 | feelings about and how he handles it you know and so I think this is quite |
| 0:50.5 | funny you know obviously he's writing as a Roman emperor about the annoying |
| 0:54.4 | people he meets and how he he tries to stay calm I guess so yeah this is from |
| 1:00.6 | book two of the meditations by Marcos Orilius say to yourself at the start of |
| 1:05.8 | the day I shall meet with meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious |
| 1:13.4 | and uns sociable people they're subject to all of these defects because they |
| 1:19.1 | have no knowledge of good and bad but I who have observed the nature of the |
| 1:24.7 | good and seen that it is the right and of the bad and seen that it is the wrong |
| 1:29.9 | and of the wrongdo himself and seen that his nature is akin to my own not |
| 1:37.4 | because he's of the same blood and seed but because he shares as I do in mind |
| 1:42.6 | and thus in a portion of the divine I then can neither be harmed by these |
| 1:49.2 | people nor become angry with the one who is akin to me nor can I hate him for |
| 1:55.8 | we have come into being to work together like feet, hands, eyelids or the two |
| 2:02.4 | rows of teeth in our upper and lower jaws to work against one another is |
| 2:07.8 | therefore contrary to nature and to be angry with another person and turn |
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