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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

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

We brought you the life of Zeno recently, who obviously I talk a lot about here on the podcast. We talk about him quite a bit in lives of the Stoics.

I actually think Clienthe's is more interesting. He's not just a philosopher. He's a boxer. He was a water carrier, like he watered basically a gardener,

a manual laborer, a real humble sort of salt of the earth kind of dude. In lives of the Stoics, I present him as the Apostle, Zeno being the prophet.

In a way, the Apostle is a harder, humbler, much less glamorous role, but Zeno would have had to admit, one without which the prophets work would never find an audience.

In today's episode, I'm going to bring you Diogenes Lair. This is biography of Clienthe's.

And I'll let you listen to that. We had this excerpt read by Michael Reed. It does a great job.

And then if you want to dig in more on Clienthe's, check out lives of the Stoics and enjoy.

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Clienthe's was a native of Asos and the son of Phanius. He was originally a boxer as we learned from antistenies in his successions.

And he came to Athens having but four Drakmas as some people say and attaching himself to Zinnon, he devoted himself to philosophy in a most noble manner and he adhered to the same doctrines as his master.

He was especially eminent for this industry so that as he was a very poor man, he was forced to undertake mercenary employments and he used to draw water in the gardens by night.

In by day, he used to exercise himself in philosophical discussions on which account he was called free antelies from freer, a well, and antileo to draw water.

They also say that he was on one occasion brought before a court of justice to be compelled to give an account what his sources of income were from which he maintained himself in such good condition.

And that then he was acquitted having produced as his witness the gardener and whose garden he drew the water and a woman who was a meal seller and whose establishment he used to prepare the meal.

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