All The Rest Is Commentary
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
“It’s a famous story, one we’ve told before. Hillel was asked to explain the Torah. ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself,’ he said. ‘All the rest is commentary.’”
Ryan discusses why the fundamental concepts of philosophy are all that matter, and why you should embody them, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:12.6 | Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStood.com. |
| 0:33.6 | All the rest is commentary. It's a famous story one we've told before. |
| 0:38.6 | Hello was asked to explain the Torah. Love thy neighbor as thyself. He said all the rest is commentary. How would Marcus Aurelius or Seniko or Epictetus have answered a similar question. |
| 0:50.6 | If you had asked Zeno or Client these are Musonius Rufus or any of the other great Stoics to explain Stoicism in a few words or while standing on one leg. What would they have said? |
| 1:01.6 | They probably would have just hit you with four words courage, temperance, justice, wisdom, or maybe they would have given you a sentence that implied those four words. |
| 1:11.6 | It's not what happens to you in life. It's how you respond. Meaning that every situation calls for us to respond with courage, justice, wisdom, or temperance. |
| 1:21.6 | Or they'd have drawn on Marcus and Epictetus's summation of philosophy. Don't talk about being good. Be good. Everything else, the hundreds of books that the Stoics wrote from the birth of Zeno to the death of Marcus Aurelius is commentary. |
| 1:35.6 | Even this email is commentary because what really matters are those precepts, those basic commands for living. Love thy neighbor as thyself, courage, temperance, justice, wisdom. Don't talk about philosophy, embody it. That's what matters. |
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