Character Is Fate
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🗓️ 15 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:08.6 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:13.1 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy |
| 0:16.8 | that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. |
| 0:20.1 | For more, you can visit us at Daily Stellic. |
| 0:22.2 | com. For more, you can visit us at Dailystone.com. |
| 0:22.8 | Character is fate. How did Hadrian know that Antoninus would be a worthy mentor to Mark as realist, |
| 0:36.0 | that he could be trusted as a stand-in emperor? He knew because he had glimpsed into Antoninus' character. |
| 0:43.7 | We were told the story of Hadrian watching Antoninus help his elderly stepfather up a flight |
| 0:48.8 | of stairs. |
| 0:50.4 | He didn't know anyone could see. |
| 0:52.0 | It wasn't a performance. It wasn't virtue signaling, as we call it today. |
| 0:56.0 | It was actual virtue. Kindness, decency, respect. |
| 1:00.0 | And it was these same traits that Antoninus brought to his 20 years as Marcus's guardian |
| 1:05.9 | and to the Roman people as their leader. |
| 1:08.4 | The reason that justice, which is the theme of the new book, Right Thing right now, |
| 1:11.5 | which you can pre-order right now daily stoic. |
| 1:13.8 | The reason this is such a critical part of stoicism is that it goes to |
| 1:18.5 | character. What good is courage if the person acting with it is not a good person. You could have a brilliant |
| 1:24.4 | mind but if you don't have a moral compass it may bring you to ruin. Character is fate, the Stoics, that it determines |
| 1:30.6 | our destiny, hero or Nero, our personal integrity decides. |
| 1:35.9 | Our sense of justice is our trajectory. |
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