Welcome to the Daily Stoic 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 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women.

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The Bible is more appropriate than anger.

At the beginning of meditations, Marcus Aurelius laments the kind of people he's going to

meet each day, the bitter, the stupid, the jealous, the petty.

Throughout the book he mentions other undesirables, the shameless, the evil, the greedy, the ignorant,

the manipulative.

And today we could add still others, anti-vaxxers, racists, polluters, rage, profiteers, reality

television shows, trolls, and on and on.

These people are frustrating.

They make the world less safe, less productive, less collaborative.

They poison the common good.

They destroy any semblance of common understanding or commonality period.

But instead of being angry at them, try pity first.

As we've said before, these people aren't actually having a good time.

Nor in most cases are they avoiding the consequences of their own actions.

In some cases, they suffer the most.

You know this is true, even if it doesn't always seem so obvious.

After all, you could be like them if you wanted, yet you choose not to be.

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