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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 dailystood.com.

You must burn the white flag. The odds are looking bad. They are asking you to compromise.

They want you to betray what you believe in. It would be so easy to take your buy out

and leave this mess to the people who come after you.

Conceived, roll over, give up, beg to be spared. Ha! The stillocks says no. Cato not only

refused to surrender to Caesar as he fought to preserve the Roman Republic. He demanded

that no one ask for mercy or clemency on his behalf, because that would mean he had lost.

That he had been conquered. And this was not the case. The Medal of Honor Commendation

for James Stockdale reveals the same kind of defiance and determination, explaining that

he deliberately inflicted a near mortal wound to his person in order to convince his captors

of his willingness to give up his life rather than capitulate. There is a story about

Epic Titus under torture by his master who expected him to beg to stop calmly warning

him over and over again that his leg was about to break. Finally, it snapped. What did

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