Who Will You Emulate?

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Education, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Cicero vs. Cato: Who is the greater example?

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free right now.
0:05.0	Just join Wondery Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.1	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:20.5	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:27.7	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy
0:31.6	that has guided some of history's greatest men and women
0:36.2	to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:41.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:49.1	For more, visitdailystoic.com.
1:08.1	Who will you emulate?
1:10.3	No one did it better.
1:13.1	No one did more for the historical record.
1:17.1	Without Cicero, much of the Stoic canon would have been lost.
1:23.2	We are lucky that this great and articulate mind of antiquity spent so much time with the Stoic texts.
1:24.2	It is through him that some of the best Stoic wisdom was preserved.
1:29.0	Cato, on the other hand, hardly wrote anything down.
1:33.1	He didn't provide us with any dialogues or essays.
1:36.0	He hardly talked about Stoicism at all.
1:38.8	Yet we are far luckier for his contributions to the philosophy
1:43.0	because he showed us what a St stoic was supposed to do.
1:48.4	In lives of the Stoics, I am fascinated by this contrast, the two biggest contemporary Stoic philosophers.
1:57.4	They were friends and rivals, colleagues, and opponents, but their biggest divergence came not in terms of policy, but in how they lived.
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