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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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It's from the little moments that you learn the big lessons. That's what we're going to talk about today. I'm excited that lives of the Stokes is now out.

But I wanted to sort of get to the key idea behind this book, which we'll get into right now.

But it's something I think about a lot. I feel like most of the things that I note down when I read books, when I am doing my marginally, when I'm transferring things from a book, I read to my to my commonplace book.

It's going to be something along the lines of what we're going to talk about today.

Small events, single moment, a simple exchange and unremarkable decision. This is what changes the world.

On a fateful day in the fourth century BC, after a disastrous voyage on the Mediterranean, a merchant named Zeno washed up peniless and Athens. He could have dispaired.

Instead, he studied philosophy and ended up founding the School of Stoicism. I made a prosperous voyage, he would later say, when I suffered a shipwreck.

In the first century BCE, Pompey tried to corrupt Marcus Porsche's Cato by dangling a marriage alliance. Go and tell Pompey, Cato said, that Cato is not to be captured by the way of women's apartments.

A few years later, his daughter collaborating in an attempt to overthrow Julius Caesar would stab herself in the leg to test her ability to withstand torture, able to successfully bear the pain she and her husband Brutus went ahead with the conspiracy.

Several generations would pass an eventually place Marcus Aurelius at the head of the Roman Empire, a friend stopped Marcus as he was leaving his home one morning, where are you going? He said, to handle business?

No, Marcus was on his way to attend a philosophy lecture. Learning is a good thing even for one who is growing old, Marcus said, from sex to the philosopher, I shall learn that which I do not yet know.

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