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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics

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

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

We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic 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

Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I've raved about the book Rome's last citizen many times

It's a great book

one of the only

Biographies other than Plutarch ever written about Kato the younger the towering Stoic of the Roman Republic and

And one of the things I try to do here on the weekend is provide excerpts or insights into some of those books

And so in today's episode we have a chapter on Kato

I think you'll like this chapter. It's about the sort of early days of Kato what makes Kato Kato how he

Born into this illustrious family this long tradition beginning with Kato the elder his great-great grandfather

Who by the way tried to ban the Stoics and all the philosophy from Rome?

So as Pratt as he would have been of his great-grandson. I don't

Don't know how happy he would have been to see him become a practicing philosopher in any case

We're gonna talk about the early days of Kato's life how he became the philosopher he became how he studied how he became so smart and

And why he embraced philosophy and the living tradition of living austerely

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