Cicero on How to Tell a Joke
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🗓️ 11 April 2021
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Summary
Today’s episode features a section from Michael Fontaine’s How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor published by Princeton University Press and HighBridge audio, a division of Recorded Books. How to Tell a Joke is a modern translation and collection of Cicero and Quintilian’s timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience.
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| 0:23.6 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics |
| 0:30.3 | We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives |
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| 0:47.7 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
| 0:59.1 | Hey everyone |
| 1:00.6 | It's Ryan Holliday welcome to a special episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I have raved now many times about |
| 1:08.3 | One of my favorite series of books the Princeton University presses |
| 1:12.6 | Ancient wisdom series. It's the ancient wisdom series for modern readers. That's what it's called and I've read a bunch of these |
| 1:20.4 | I've read |
| 1:21.6 | How to be free from epic teetus. I've read how to die. That's James ROM's edition of Seneca |
| 1:27.9 | I've read |
| 1:29.1 | There one how to be a bad emperor, which is a translation of Sutonius |
| 1:33.8 | I've read Plutarchs how to be a leader. I've read a whole bunch of them |
| 1:37.4 | I've read the original texts that they're that they pull from as well |
| 1:41.4 | But it's kind of a great way to just sort of go back through and get the really important parts of these texts |
| 1:46.8 | So if you haven't read through citaties if you haven't read Plutarch |
| 1:49.7 | If you haven't read Seneca if you haven't read epic teetus |
| 1:52.3 | These are great places to start and then you can go read the physical the the the full text or if you have read the full text |
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