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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose

of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visitdailystoic.com.

This says so much about you.

It seems like a rather small thing to clinch such an enormous position.

But it's a true story, one I tell in right thing right now.

Hadrian decided that he could trust Antoninus with absolute power, a man he had no blood relation to,

after watching Antoninus, who had no idea anyone was looking,

carefully and respectfully guide his ailing father-in-law up a flight of stairs.

Why would this have meant so much to the Emperor of Rome?

Perhaps because Rome's founding

myth celebrated this exact behavior. Captured in countless statues and paintings and mosaics,

but best rendered in Virgil's, the Aeneid, generations of Romans were told the story of

Anaeus, the founder of Rome fleeing Troy with his enfeebled father in his arms.

For all Rome's obsession with power, it was this beautiful act of compassion that Rome sought

to memorialize. So we can imagine when Hadrian saw Antoninus helping his own father-in-law,

he must have thought this is a man after

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