dantaki / Marcus-Aurelius-Bot

Tweeting Meditations to World Leaders

Tweet wisdom to world leaders.

Who was Marcus Aurelius?

He was last of the 5 good emperors of the Roman Empire (reign 161-180AD). He also had a lifelong interest in philosophy.

Marcus read in the school of the Stoics, an austere philosophy usually summarized by the maxim

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virtue is the only good

Marcus wrote his thoughts for his own use, known today as the Meditations. This text is not only a valuable source of Stoic philosophy in the 2nd century AD but a headspring of wisdom.

Listen to Marcus, listen to his thoughts, and follow on twitter.

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@BotAurelius

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Usage

$ python botaur.py -help
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Version 0.0.1
Author: Danny Antaki dantaki at ucsd dot edu
  python botaur.py  -u <user>  -n <n_tweets> 
                    -b <n_display>

mining arguments:

  -u        user or users separated by commas [required]
  -n        number of tweets to mine          [default: 1]

display arguments:

  -b        number of tweets to display       [default: 3]

optional arguments:

  -h        show this message and exit

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