Do You Have This Too? | Practice Gentleness Instead of Anger
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🗓️ 15 July 2025
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There was gruffness to the Stoics. A wariness of getting too close or too attached, lest your heart be broken by fortune. But does that mean the Stoics were unfeeling?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. |
| 0:43.0 | Do you have this, too? |
| 0:58.2 | They were tough. |
| 0:59.5 | They knew that life was tough. |
| 1:01.2 | They knew that a fragile person would not survive. |
| 1:04.3 | They also knew back in the days of ancient Rome that life was fragile, |
| 1:09.0 | that even tough people could be cut down by disease or events |
| 1:13.6 | or a tyrant. So yeah, there was a gruffness to the Stoics, a wariness of getting too close or |
| 1:20.2 | too attached, lest your heart be broken by fortune. But does this mean that the Stoics were |
| 1:26.4 | unfeeling, utterly disconnected, harsh, and invulnerable? |
| 1:30.2 | Hardly. |
| 1:31.1 | In his fascinating biography of Marcus Aurelius carried at the painted porch, this is the book |
| 1:36.1 | by Donald Robertson, Donald takes pains to note a virtue exhibited by Marcus' incredible mother, |
| 1:43.5 | Lucilla, what he refers to as her natural affection. |
| 1:48.1 | While the mothers of many emperors before him were ambitious and cruel, Marcus' mother was |
| 1:53.1 | kind and generous and genuinely loved by her children. Marcus, Donald Wright, came to agree with |
| 2:00.0 | Fronto, his rhetoric teacher, that generally speaking, those among us who are called patricians are rather deficient in precisely this quality. |
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