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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoak podcast. There has never been a

better time for people to read the book of today's guest and to listen to this conversation. As soon as I

read it, I reached out to have Tom Ricks on the podcast because this is exactly connected to what we

talk about here at Daily Stoic. The book is first principles, what America's founders learned from

the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country. It's really about

the Greek and Roman philosophy, Stoicism, Epicureanism, what ancient Rome taught Thomas Jefferson and

Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and John Adams, what it taught them, what the good lessons

they took from it, the flaws inherent in some parts of the system.

This is a conversation I was so excited to have.

I'll just give you General James Mattis's blurb of the book.

Thomas Ricks knocks it out of the park with this jewel of a book.

On every page, I learned something new.

Read it every night if you want to restore your faith in this country.

So please listen to this conversation with the great Tom Ricks,

but read first principles what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans

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