The Daily Stoic

The Stoics didn't sugarcoat the truth. They believed in saying what needed to be said, even when it was uncomfortable, unpopular, or hard to hear.

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You might have noticed that we contradicted ourselves in our last two episodes. First, we celebrated what seems like the golden age that was the classical world. But then we pointed out just how vicious and corrupt that world was, too. So which is it?

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As the saying goes, what goes around comes around.

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We are lucky to live in this moment, however flawed.

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Seneca talked about how we need to ‘choose ourselves a Cato,’ a standard to measure ourselves against.

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