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All The Stoics Were Kings | Following The Doctor’s Orders

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Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Business, 694393, Society & Culture, Daily Stoic, Stoic, Education, Ryan Holiday, Philosophy, Stoic Philosophy, Stoicism, Self-improvement

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Aurelius was a true philosopher king, but he wasn’t the first or the last amongst the Stoics. The first emperor, Octavian, studied under Athenodorus and Arius Didymus. Hadrian took classes from Epictetus and Antoninus was a kind of natural Stoic.

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And in today's excerpt from The Daily Stoic, Ryan reminds us to to stop fighting against the thing and use it as a prescription, that it is unfortunate that it happen but its fortunate that it happen to me.

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0:10.2

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0:18.6

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0:26.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

And we are the hosts of Red Handed a weekly true crime podcast.

0:36.0

Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases, but we also dig into those you might not have heard of.

0:42.0

Like the Nepalese Royal Massacre and the Nithari Child Sacrifices.

0:46.0

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.

0:51.0

Find, download, and binge red-, wherever you listen to the Daily Stoic podcast.

1:06.4

On Friday we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation but also reading a passage

1:11.4

from the Daily Stoic, My Book, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance

1:17.1

in the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and

1:22.0

literary agent Stephen Hanselman.

1:24.6

So today we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics with some analysis from me,

1:29.6

and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words in to works.

1:37.0

All the stoics were kings.

1:44.4

Marcus Aurelius was a true philosopher king, but he wasn't the first or the last among

1:49.5

the stoics.

1:50.8

The first emperor, Octavian, studied under Athenaeus and Arius Didamus.

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