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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to actual life.

Thank you for listening.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another Sunday episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast.

We've been talking about Cicero recently, who's one of the more interesting of the Stoics.

Or, you know, I do profile him in lives of the Stoics, but I call him the fellow traveler.

He's very interested in Stoic philosophy. He writes about it eloquently. He writes about it beautifully, but he's not exactly a practitioner.

I mean, by our political standards, he is a wise and moral and philosophical man, but compared to say a Marcus Aurelius, closer to your ordinary politician.

I guess I'm not totally being fair. He's a complicated figure. If you want to read more about Cicero, you can check out his profile in lives of the Stoics.

Anthony Everett, who was a recent podcast guest, has a fantastic biography on Cicero.

But in today's episode, I'm going to bring you more directly from the horse's mouth.

Cicero writes many things, many of his speeches survived to us, many of which are quite interesting.

He had a very keen eye towards his position in history. We don't need to get into that right now.

But in today's episode, I'm going to bring you another chunk of his work, which most directly concerns the Stoic and Stoic philosophy.

It's a work he titled on the Stoic Paradoxes. He's basically exploring these sayings or epigrams, which encapsulate a Stoic idea.

They're not exactly paradoxes per se, but they are complex and complicated. They seem like a contradiction until you understand what the Stoics are really saying.

This one is that all fools are mad, or that every fool is a mad man.

So I'll let Cicero explain what he means. We'll get right into it. You'll decide if you agree if it's a paradox or not.

And we'll let Cicero take us away. Enjoy.

Hello, it is Matt and Alice from British Scandal here. And we wanted to let you know that this season we are very excited to be covering the Cambridge Spies.

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