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Stoic philosophy
Each one of us ought to try to leave brothers rather than money to our children, so as to leave greater assurances of blessings.
Lectures, Lecture XV, c. 65 AD
Translated by Cora E. Lutz · Stoic philosophy
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Musonius Rufus was a first-century Stoic philosopher who, unusually for his era, wrote explicitly about marriage, parenthood, and the raising of children as central moral duties.

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