Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.

On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic

texts, audiobooks that you like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom

that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that

you're able to apply it to your actual life.

Thank you for listening.

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Progressive and forward thinking views on Jenn-dure.

for turn of the millennia realm.

But he also teaches Epictetus.

There would be no markets are ever with pictetus, and there would be no epictetus with

out Musonius rufus.

I write about Wusonius in Lies of the Stoics, if you're not familiar with him at all, I

fascinated writing about him. He gets exiled four times. He undergoes all sorts of adversity,

but he's known in Rome as the Roman Socrates, one of the great Stoic thinkers and orggers of his time.

And yet, very few people today have read him. So in today's episode, I'm going to bring you some

excerpts from Wusonius Rufus. And in this excerpt, he's talking about having a commitment to live

for virtue and not pleasure, since virtue saves us from making the kind of mistakes that ruin a life.

And he's going to be talking about the importance of austere personal habits, including a simple diet,

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