There’s Two Ways It Goes Now | Do Not Be Deceived By Fortune
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🗓️ 8 September 2025
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Summary
A Stoic doesn’t always win, but they never go quietly along.
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Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday
Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. |
| 1:03.6 | There's two ways it goes now. As Caesar overwhelmed and dismantled the Roman Republic, |
| 1:09.4 | the Romans faced an impossible choice. Neither option was good, but it was all they had. |
| 1:12.4 | They could allow it to happen, except the bridle, as Plutarch put it, and with some humiliation, hold on to their estates, their |
| 1:17.3 | status, and their lives. Or they could resist desperately, hopelessly, against overwhelming |
| 1:24.4 | odds. It's like the lyrics to the Mount Joy song. |
| 1:28.3 | And by the way, we had a great conversation with the lead singer Matt Quinn on the podcast |
| 1:31.3 | who came by the studio not long ago. |
| 1:33.3 | It's one of my favorite verses. |
| 1:34.3 | Let me play it for you real fast. |
| 1:36.3 | It's two ways it goes now. |
| 1:40.3 | It's all theown is crashing down. |
| 1:45.0 | You could be the flame that burns out. |
| 1:49.0 | You could turn and burn and die. |
| 1:53.0 | Cicero chose to go quietly along. |
| 1:57.0 | Cato refused. |
| 1:59.0 | Both were powerless to stop what was already in motion. Caesar was too |
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