“Life is what our thoughts make it”

Brian Scott MacKenzie
4 min readApr 21, 2016
The Emperor Marcus Aurelius, a bona fide philosopher-king (Photo Credit: AR)

“If someone can show me that what I think or do is not right, then I will happily change, for I seek truth. No one has ever really been harmed by truth, but people who continue in self-deception and ignorance harm themselves.”

Born today in 121, Marcus Aurelius reigned as Roman emperor from 161–80.

Five centuries before, Plato had written that utopia would come when…

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Brian Scott MacKenzie

History, politics, education, music, culture. Award-winning high school teacher, former principal. College instructor. Seahawks Diehard. Twitter: @brian_mrbmkz