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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visitdailystoic.com. You are never excused from this.
0:59.0	He was an old man.
1:01.7	He was considered the wisest leader who ever lived.
1:05.6	Yet there he was leaving the palace carrying his books.
1:09.6	Where are you off to?
1:10.7	A friend asked. I'm off to see Sextus
1:13.5	the philosopher, Marcus Aurelius told him, to learn that which I do not yet know. He wasn't even
1:20.1	sending for a tutor, which he easily could have done. Everyone was at his beck and call.
1:26.3	He was following the example of Hadrian, though,
1:29.0	who as emperor had traveled all the way to Greece to attend Epictetus's lectures in person.
1:36.1	It was a marvelous thing to see, the friend noted, the king of the Romans in his old age,
1:42.3	taking up his tablets and going to school. But this is what
1:46.6	the wise do. They don't just learn when they're young, but all their lives. They identify as a
1:52.2	student, not just as a person who has attained wisdom. They don't see themselves as better or
1:57.1	apart. They're just like everyone else, still learning, still needing to be taught.
2:02.7	Until when is a person obligated to study Torah?
2:06.3	A Jewish thinker once said, until the day of one's death, at no rank, General Mattis
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