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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help

you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

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 dailystoic.com.

And you help others first. Stoicism, it was said by one early 20th century historian

was the stern nurse of heroes in the ancient world. As a philosophy, it was tough. It was

demanding, but it made great men and women. It created heroes that those tough and scary

times required, your kados, your portions, your epictetises, and your Marcus Aureliuses.

Well here we are, again, in tough times, a global pandemic has struck wide swathes of

the population. Governments are struggling under the load. Economies are crashing. These

are the kinds of moments that make average people want a shrink to turn inward, to focus

on themselves, but a stoic resists that impulse. Remember what we believe, what we hold up

as the highest virtues, courage, self-discipline, justice, wisdom, that is not being afraid, not

giving into our baser instincts, not putting yourself above others, not getting lost

in what's up close, but seeing the bigger picture. The next few weeks and months may call

for you to exercise all of those traits, as crises often do. Most of all, they're going

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