How To Be Content: The Search For The Good Life Pt. 1

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🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Today’s episode is an excerpt from Stephen Harrison’s How To Be Content: An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess published by Princeton University Press. In this chapter Horace talks about being content with what you have, the different philosophical ideas that lead us to living “the good life.” and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.
0:08.2	On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic
0:13.3	texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom
0:21.6	that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.
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