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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. For more, you can visit us dailystod.com.

It's certainly true that people can do some awful things to each other. We hear of a trusted

representative who is stealing from their clients. We hear of a man who has been leading

a second life even starting a second family. We hear of a woman who commits an unspeakable

crime.

These gross violations of morality and law do exist. They are things that we would never

do. We would never even consider doing it.

However, the truth is that most of the wrongs committed day-to-day are done by ordinary

people in ordinary ways. Even most of the wrongs done to us are not done with any particular

amalice. But instead stem from ignorance or fatigue or simple selfishness. Moreover,

most of them are mistakes we have made ourselves in the distant or not so distant past. As

Seneca writes,

A good look at ourselves will make us more temperate if we ask.

Haven't we ourselves also done something like that? Haven't we gone astray in the same

way? Does condemning these things really benefit us?

When we realize that most errors are relatable and human, we are more likely to understand

and forgive.

We will not take personally a slight or a screw up we have been guilty of ourselves, because

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