These Add Up to Greatness
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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“Well-being is realized by small steps,” Zeno would say looking back on his life, “but is truly no small thing.”
🗓️ The Daily Stoic Page-A-Day Calendar | Wisdom isn’t something you get via epiphany or even a couple years of intense study. No, it’s something you accumulate day by day—action by action, as Marcus Aurelius put it—over the course of a lifetime.
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| 1:01.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find |
| 1:14.0 | strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. Each one of these episodes is based on the |
| 1:20.8 | 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women, help you learn from them, to follow in their |
| 1:31.7 | example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice |
| 1:39.1 | and wisdom. For more, visitdailyStoic.com. George Washington's favorite saying was that many Mickles make a muckle. |
| 2:00.5 | It's an old Scottish proverb that |
| 2:02.7 | illustrates a truth that we all know. Things add up, even the little ones, even at the pace of one per day. |
| 2:10.8 | That's what the Stoics believe, too. They said it is the little things that add up to wisdom and |
| 2:15.3 | virtue. What you read, who you study under, what you |
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