Fortune Favors the Brave | Balance The Books Of Life Daily
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🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about how crucial the virtue of courage is, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.6 | Fortune favors the brave as Mount Vesuvius erupted those who could run away did |
| 0:48.1 | Those who were far away could see only the plumes of smoke and ash |
| 0:51.8 | But Pliny the elder and Admiral and amateur scientist was immediately curious |
| 0:57.3 | He planned to go investigate until a messenger came with ancient news that a friend was trapped the foot of the mountain |
| 1:04.6 | assembling the fleet Pliny rushed to the scene in utter fearlessness to rescue all those he could by boat |
| 1:11.2 | Arriving he found the shoreline blocked by debris a helmsman advised they turned back |
| 1:16.6 | We've talked before about how fortune favors the bold |
| 1:19.5 | But do you know where that expression comes from it comes from Pliny? |
| 1:24.3 | He said fortune favors the bold head for |
| 1:27.7 | Pompanius as Pliny's nephew would recount what he had begun in the spirit of inquiry |
| 1:34.0 | He completed as a hero |
| 1:36.2 | tragically Pliny did not survive |
| 1:38.8 | Although he did manage save the life of his friend |
| 1:42.8 | When the Antonine plague overwhelmed Rome if you had means to flee you did |
| 1:46.9 | No one would have faulted Marcus for doing the same |
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