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 Da have been lonely. Here he was a lover of poetry

and philosophy of truth and goodness, and what was he surrounded by? By people who loved violence and splendor,

fame and money, by people who lusted, who wanted to conquer, who needed to be constantly

entertained. There is a weariness to Marcus Reelius' meditations because the world wearied him.

He writes of the emptiness of bustling processions, the cruelty of the Colosseum, the superficiality

of things people chased and coveted. Like us, Marx Ruelas lived in the real world, not Plato's

Republic, as he reminded himself. He was surrounded by shallow people, people who missed the point,

people who lacking meaning distracted themselves with pleasure.

And yet, he worked hard not to let this weariness wear on him, not to let him make him angry

and mean, or to give in to the temptations of the mom.

He got outside.

He got up early while the day was still fresh and young, and Rome seemed fresh and pure.

He immersed himself in nature. He cultivated simplicity, not the superficial kind, but the kind rooted in first principles.

Confersed with the ancients. He cherished great art. He was a towering example of greatness and

leadership and wisdom. As frustrating and disappointed as he sometimes got,

he tried not to give up on people, or let them, as he wrote, implicate him in their ugliness.

And today, in our own imperial but decaying world, we must follow these same practices.

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