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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help

you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these

passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest

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This will come and go. It seems terrible now. It does, of course, how could it not?

Each day the number of new reported cases comes in. Each day the reports of the overloaded

hospitals increases. The markets continue to stumble. No fall, headfirst, into a major

recession. You're not working. You are afraid. But this is partly because you are right in

the thick of it. You are looking at it up close. But if we can zoom out, just a tad, we

get some perspective. We're reminded that this too shall pass that we will survive.

Hemingway opens the sun also rises set after a terrible war, which was then followed by

a terrible pandemic with all sorts of ordinary individual tragedy happening in between with

one of the most beautiful verses in the Bible, one that sounds like it could have been written

by Marcus Aurelius. One generation passes away. It says another generation cometh. But

the earth abides forever. The sun also arises. And the sun goes down and hasteneth to the

place where he arose. Each day since this crisis began, the sun has risen and set. The moon

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