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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off

with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visit

daily stilic.com. Honesty without tact is cruelty.

They rejected pointless convention.

They spoke hard truths. They weren't afraid of being punished.

They didn't fear power. The Stoics said what needed to be said. Hailing from the cynic

tradition, as we talked about recently, the Stoics had that dog in them. But they weren't

jerks. Not on purpose anyway. It's one of the things Marcus Aurelis admired about Antoninus, his social graces.

The way Marcus writes, he never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent,

the ability to feel at ease with people and put them at their ease.

Last year, we did a deep dive into this topic in our master class about philosophy.

One of the experts we talked to, Dr. Jennifer Baker, had a great line.

Honesty without tact, she said, is cruelty.

She was talking about the importance of how our words land with other people and not using

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