Respect the Man Who Stands Alone | Awareness Is Freedom
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“It’s hard not to read about Cato’s life and not be struck by how often the man stood alone. He stood alone as Quaestor, as he reformed Rome’s treasury. He was the sole voice willing to say “No” when people wanted to spend money the empire didn’t have.”
Ryan talks about the importance of living by principles and respecting others who do the same, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:05.3 | Download the app today. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 0:18.9 | but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoke, |
| 0:22.4 | 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Art of Living, |
| 0:27.1 | which I wrote my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:31.6 | And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the stillsks, |
| 0:35.9 | from Epititus Marks, Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 0:40.1 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 0:48.1 | Respect the man who stands alone. |
| 0:50.7 | It's hard not to read about Kato's life and be struck by how often he stood alone. |
| 0:55.9 | He stood alone as he reformed Rome's treasury. |
| 0:58.9 | He was the sole voice willing to say no when people wanted to spend the money the empire didn't have. |
| 1:03.9 | He stood alone when he refused to buy elections. |
| 1:06.5 | He stood alone in how he dressed. |
| 1:08.4 | He stood alone when he fell a buster against bad laws. |
| 1:11.5 | As Seneca would write, Kato stood alone against the vices of a degenerate state |
| 1:16.2 | that was sinking to destruction beneath its very weight. |
| 1:19.6 | And he stayed the fall of the republic to the utmost that one man's hand could do to draw it back. |
| 1:25.5 | Kato was right in most of these stands, wrong in others. |
| 1:29.5 | Sometimes he was obstinate and stubborn. |
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