Use It. That’s What It’s There For.
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
"There’s no question that the Stoics accustomed themselves to hard living. For many people, this is the image we have of them: Cato walking bareheaded and barefooted. Marcus sleeping on a hard mattress. Seneca practicing poverty and cold plunges.
Yet less well known but equally true is that the Stoics knew the good life: Cato had a family fortune. Marcus lived in an imperial palace. Seneca threw epic parties.
Is this a contradiction? No." Ryan explains how the Stoics found fulfillment despite their own personal fortunes in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Daily Steal Podcast. For each day we read a short passage designed to |
| 0:51.2 | help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for a living good life. |
| 0:57.5 | Which one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some |
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| 1:10.7 | Use it. That's what it's there for. There's no question that the Stealocs accustomed themselves |
| 1:16.1 | to hard living. For many people, this is the image they have of them. Cato walking bare |
| 1:21.3 | headed and bare footed. Marcus sleeping on a hard mattress. |
| 1:25.2 | Santa Cato practicing poverty and cold plunges. Yet less well known but equally true is that |
| 1:30.5 | the Stoics knew the good life. Cato had a family fortune. Marcus lived in an imperial palace. |
| 1:36.8 | Santa Cato through epic parties. Is this a contradiction? No. What Santa Cato tells us, |
| 1:42.8 | via clientes, is that while the wise men doesn't need luxuries, that's why we practice |
| 1:48.2 | deprivation from time to time, they can still enjoy them. The Stoics attitude was something |
| 1:53.5 | like smoke him if you got him or use it. That's what it's there for. If fortune has blessed you, |
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