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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

People are weak. People are scared. People are afraid to go for what they want. It has always been thus.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visitdailystoic.com. It's nothing without this.
0:58.9	We don't see enough of it.
1:00.9	People are weak.
1:01.8	People are scared.
1:02.7	People are afraid to go for what they want.
1:04.9	They're afraid to fight.
1:06.1	Afraid to stand up.
1:07.1	Afraid to speak.
1:08.4	Afraid to try.
1:09.9	It has always been thus. The virtue of courage, the first of
1:14.2	the four stoic virtues, is essential, not just for a good life, but for a good world. And yet,
1:20.3	as we've talked about before, none of the stoic virtues are possible without the moderating
1:25.0	and clarifying influences of the other virtues.
1:29.1	As Myron says to his son Alexis in the historical novel The Last of the Wine,
1:34.8	set not long before Zeno would lay down the virtues of stoicism,
1:38.9	Courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber or a tyrant.
1:43.9	He is saying that courage separated from justice,
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