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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes

Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics

We interview stoke philosophers. We explore at length how these stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives

And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down

Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast

We recently brought you an excerpt from Cicero from Princeton University presses ancient wisdom for modern readers series

Well today we've got another excerpt from that same book Princeton University Press was nice enough to give to us

This one is from the order quintillion

Again, this edition is translated with commentary from Michael Fontaine

Quintillion wrote this piece the one you're going to listen to today

150 years after Cicero. It's funny. It's the distance of time all these things kind of get pressed together

But I mean, you know, 150. This is like Abraham Lincoln versus today, right?

Just to just to give you some perspective

But quintillion wrote this piece 150 years after Cicero

It's very obvious how deeply influenced he was by Cicero

He talks about how humor isn't just logic

But it also comes from a sort of a primal place. It has to touch you

Uh, deeply and and I think this is true. I think oftentimes for instance when I'll I'll watch a comedian like on a Netflix special or something

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