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.

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History little is needed for the happy life.

We think we need piles of money and power and fame to get that perfect house and marry

that perfect person, and there are so many things we tell ourselves we have to have.

But for centuries, the wisest minds have been saying some version of what Marcus Aurelius

wrote in Meditations.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

And a little less than 2000 years later, Gerter wrote one ought to every day, at least,

to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible,

to speak a few reasonable words.

Seneca Simoli suggested that each day we should find a good quote or read a good story or

have a good exchange with a friend.

That's it.

He says that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes,

as well.

And a few things, a good quote to start the morning, a little song to start the work day,

a good poem with lunch, a fine picture next in a few reasonable words spoken over dinner

with a friend or a loved one or in the pages of a journal.

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