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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy

that has guided some of history's greatest men and women

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

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Not through me, not through me.

We don't control what other people do.

We don't control that they lie. We don't control that they abuse power. We don't control that they cheat on their spouses. We don't control that they

attack or persecute. We don't control that they spread misinformation. But we certainly control whether

we do those things, or rather that we don't do those things. Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived through terrible tyranny, and he refused to let it corrupt

him.

He knew that it was impossible for an individual to fight against pervasive evil and corruption.

But still, he said our duty was simple.

Our credo must be, let the lie come into the world, he said, let it even triumph, but not through me.

This is Cato during the last days of the Republic. This is Rutilius and Musonius and agrippinus as they

face down the power of the state. This is Stockdale and the Hanoi Hilton. It can also be us in this

moment, whatever the future holds. We must resist

the moral inversion that celebrates selfishness and rewards dishonesty. We must resist the

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