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Welcome to the Daily Stood. For 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 men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoodic.com.

Why We Admire Socrates? Socrates was smart. He was clever and funny. He was, and we can

tell this from just two of his students, Zenefin and Plato, clearly a great teacher. But

why is it that we admire him because of his contributions to philosophy? Sure. But that's

not sufficient to explain why his example has lasted for so many thousands of years, why

he's known to so many people who couldn't possibly name any other philosopher, and why he's

resonated so much with the Stoics who usually looked on with scorn at other schools.

We admire Socrates because he lived up to what he talked about. As Marcus wrote, the

truly impressive thing about the man was that he was satisfied to treat men with justice

and the gods with reverence and didn't lose his temper unpredictably at others, didn't

make himself a slave to other people's ignorance, didn't treat anything that nature did as abnormal

or put up with as an unbearable imposition and didn't put his mind in his bodies, keeping.

In his own time, Socrates was respected for his bravery as a soldier. He was respected

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