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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well, on Thursdays, we not only read the daily meditation, but we answer some questions from listeners and fellow Stoics.

We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are.

Some of these come from my talks.

Some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with the Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happened to be someone there recording.

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Kato fought a losing battle.

He was trying to preserve a republic that was old and creaky and a rapidly changing world.

He was trying to be honest and good in a political world in which corruption was the norm.

Clinging to idealism, as Srisar said, and refusing to accept that reality was the dregs of Romulus.

Kato was going up against the most insatiable of foes, the ambition, the ego of a future tyrant.

And yet throughout it all, he was implacable when they tried to shout him down when they threatened him when they tried to kill him, nothing could stop him.

Was Kato perfect? Far from it.

He was enristicrat. He was impractical.

He did not compromise or play well with others.

As we talked about in our podcast episode with Josiah Osgood, Kato was not totally in the right, but he was more in the right than Julius Caesar who in the end marched troops against his own country.

Kato could have folded. He could have fled. He could have tried to play both sides.

He did not. Instead, he gave everything to this cause.

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