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wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life.

Each one of these passages is based on the

2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and

women. For more you can visit us at dailystoak.com.

It's about what you make happen. We don't live in ancient Rome, we're not emperors or senators, we are not

professional philosophers, we are regular people. This doesn't mean we are far from the world of

virtue, however, from the questions and dilemmas of Marcus Aurelius or Cato,

we tend to think of moral choices, William Lee Miller writes in his incredible biography of

Abraham Lincoln, as those that life forces upon us, quandaries, perplexities, choices

among goods and evils that we cannot evade.

And we also tend to think of such choices as concentrated in a moment or a short period of time.

The lifeboat is sinking and someone must be thrown out into the sea.

So shall I throw out Albert Einstein or my own grandmother. That is the stuff, he says, of ethical

cases and academies. He's talking about the same preconceptions that many of us have when we hear about the word justice.

Justice, I'm not a judge, I don't pass laws, I didn't come up with this standard practice in my industry,

but that's not what justice was to the Stoics, not to the high and mighty like Marcus or the lowly like Epictetus.

No, to them, justice was what a person did. It was how they lived. It was not big dilemmas or paradoxes. It was what they chose to make

happen in their own sphere. That's what the new book, right thing right now tried to focus on.

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