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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day 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.

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May this be the last one standing.

For years, the Stoics had fought.

First, they fought moral and spiritual decay, trying to preserve Rome's tradition in the

midst of all their success.

Then they fought, as Kato did, to keep the Republic intact as Caesar attempted to overthrow

it.

Not later in a rag-tag group known as the Stoic Opposition against a series of tyrannical

and deranged emperors.

The Stoics did not win all these battles.

In fact, they lost nearly every single one, but they kept fighting, not just politically

but also culturally.

They preserved through exiles and imprisonments through trumped-up charges, slander, and brutal

execution.

Nothing deterred them.

They clung to their principles.

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