Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Hey there, just a heads up. I'm going to be on tour this summer and fall. You can come see me in

San Francisco in Portland in June.

You can see me in Australia and New Zealand in October, in August. I'm mixing my months up here,

but in August you can see me in Chicago, in Minneapolis, in Detroit. Then I'll be on the East Coast

sometime in November and December. Anyways, grab tickets to

that, DailyStoiclive.com. I hope to see you there. It's no good without this. Maybe it'll help

you get ahead. Maybe it will help you get closer to power, help you keep power. As we see with Seneca, compromises can pay off, but they come at a high cost.

Seneca was more pragmatic, more ambitious, more willing to turn a blind eye than his fellow Stoics,

like Thrasia, who I profile in lines of the Stoics.

And this made him rich, it made him powerful,

but he paid for it with his integrity and his peace, and in the end, he paid for it with his life.

For what is a man profited? It goes one of the most haunting questions in the book of Matthew,

he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul.

We forget this timeless wisdom and these cautionary tales at our peril. It will not turn out

differently for us. We will not be the exception. Do not lie to yourself. Do not trade your soul away.

Because once it's gone, you cannot get it back.

No amount of power or success will be worth it. No earthly reward is worth your values or your

ability to look yourself in the ancient days,

the Epicureans and the Stoics were rivals. They hated each other. In fact, there's one Stoic I talk about

in lives of the Stoics, this guy named Diotimus, who so hated Epicurus that he writes this

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