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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy

that has guided some of history's greatest men and women

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

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You know, you can do something.

It's funny how much Cicero wished someone would do something to curb the lust for power of Caesar and Mark Antony and Octavian.

How Seneca wished that Nero would grow up, how he wished someone would stand in his way, restore him to sanity.

They said this privately.

Sometimes they even said it publicly or at least alluded and as coded away as possible to keep their heads.

They alluded to their disagreements with these powerful men. There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, George Washington said in 1776 to see a plan adopted for the abolition

of slavery. And it's a relief to see one of the founders say

such a thing. But it also makes you wonder, was there a man living a better position to see about that

plan than George Washington? Who was he waiting for in the nation that he started and led to do

something about it? Exactly. And this is sort of a strange thing that we do. We lament the

state of the world. We say we hope someone will do something, anything about a problem, but why does it

not occur to us that we could be that person? There is a passage at the beginning of meditations

where Mark Spruist talks about a stilic dream for Rome, a Rome where individual

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