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Do you have that dog in you?

The Stoics spoke about kindness.

They tried not to get upset.

They tried to avoid arguments.

But you know what?

Sometimes somebody just needed to say something, and sometimes the truth hurts.

The Stoics were inspired and shaped by the example of Diogenes, the dog of Sino.

Diogenes was known for his brutal takedowns of hypocrites, of fools, and of the powerful.

And it was his example that Zeno was following when he eviscerated a pompous student named Aristo after years of tolerating his interruptions

and disagreements. It was Diogenes that agrippinus channeled when he responded to exile

with a shrug and a dismissal saying, okay, we'll take our lunch on the road.

And it was Diogenes who Epictetus admired and looked up to perhaps more than any of the other Stoics.

While they never sought to hurt anyone's feelings, they didn't indulge people's pleasant fictions either.

They spoke up, they defended themselves, they protected what was important, they didn't indulge people's pleasant fictions either. They spoke up, they defended themselves,

they protected what was important. They had that dog in them, a game one at that. And what about you?

Does political correctness have you cowed? Are you too differential? Are you easily fooled by

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