It’s Ok To Break | Ask DS
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
When Marcus Aurelius heard that his beloved teacher Fronto had lost a grandchild, he sent him a letter. Perhaps, if you believe in the stereotype of the unfeeling Stoic, you might expect that this letter was intended to buck his friend up, or attempted to remind the grieving Fronto that loss was a part of life and something we had to be prepared for.
In our recent interview with Professor Martha Nussbaum on the Daily Stoic podcast, we talked about this exchange.
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| 0:00.0 | The seaside town of Ambul is cold, grey, and run down. |
| 0:04.6 | So when a wild dolphin appears, it's the miracle everyone's been waiting for. |
| 0:09.7 | Breakfast time, dinner time, even a meal time, and then the pub. |
| 0:13.6 | Freddy, Freddy, Freddy. |
| 0:15.6 | Some believe Freddy has healing powers, |
| 0:18.2 | others that he's an alien, everyone wants to swim with him. |
| 0:22.0 | It's just... Oh, this world, you know. |
| 0:25.2 | Until one day someone is accused of taking things way too far. |
| 0:30.0 | Alan Cooper committed an act of elude, obscene, and disgusting nature. |
| 0:35.2 | A tabloid scandal leads to a court battle that grips the whole country. |
| 0:40.8 | By behaving in an indecent manner with a bottle-nosed dolphin. |
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| 0:53.9 | and a bizarre accusation that spirals completely out of control. |
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| 1:14.9 | Well done. |
| 1:16.4 | You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is |
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| 1:26.2 | In this series of Briden and I talk to, among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, |
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