12 Stoic Rules For A Better Life
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 12 July 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The most powerful man in the world still needed rules to live by. In this episode, Ryan looks at the rules Marcus Aurelius seemed to return to again and again, especially when life was difficult, people were disappointing, and the responsibilities kept piling up.
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| 1:17.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:20.8 | Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, |
| 1:24.9 | courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. |
| 1:31.9 | Marcus Aurelius never claimed to be a stoic. If you look in his famous meditations, one of the |
| 1:37.9 | greatest books ever written, nowhere in here does Marcus Aurelius claim to be a stoic philosopher. |
| 1:43.7 | And Gregory Hayes, who is perhaps Marcus Aurelius claim to be a Stoic philosopher. And Gregory Hayes, who is perhaps Marcus Reelius's greatest translator, says that Marcus |
| 1:47.8 | identifies more as a philosopher than as a stoic. |
| 1:50.9 | And Hayes says that for Marx's philosophy was not merely a subject to write or argue about, |
| 1:56.6 | but one that was expected to provide a design for living. |
| 2:00.2 | He says it was a set of rules to live one's |
| 2:02.9 | life by. So what were those rules? What did philosophy do for Marcus Aurelius? That's what I want |
| 2:09.2 | to talk about in today's Daily Stoic video. Some rules, some lessons from Marcus Aurelius, |
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