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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

This reminder hurts, but we need it. At the height of his powers King Fireus was killed by a roof tile thrown by an old woman as he conquered another city.

In 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, went out for a swim in the ocean and simply never came back.

We like to think that power, that fame, that greatness, that money can protect us from the whims of fate, but of course it can't.

We lost Kobe Bryant to a helicopter crash. Stevie Ray von Two, John Lennon was killed by a deranged twerp, John F. Kennedy by one two.

All the accomplishments, all the wonderful contributions to humanity, all the years they had left to live and gifts left to give, suddenly gone, cut off before their time, all the ambition, all the mountains they had their sights on climbing gone.

It was juvenile who said that the whole world had not seemed big enough to contain Alexander the Great, then suddenly in an instant a coffin was sufficient.

No matter how big we are, we can get cut down to size. We will get cut down to size. It's not a matter of if only when.

That's why we say to ourselves several times a day, Memento Mori, that's why we study history, that's why we read these texts, to remind ourselves of that inescapable fact that our ego wants to constantly ignore, that we are fragile humans, whether we are an emperor like Marcus Aurelius or a slave like Epictetus.

We are at the mercy of forces we cannot predict, let alone control. We are mortal, we don't have forever, we are not invincible.

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