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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where 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 dailystoic.com.

You should meditate on greatness. The Stoics were some of the keenest admirers of human

greatness. Marcus Aurelius opens meditations with 17 entries, nearly 10% of the book reflecting

upon the various influential individuals in his life. Nearly every other page thereafter

has at least some quote or one story or one mention of a story about his heroes. Socrates,

Plato, Epictetus, Antoninus, Augustus, Herocletus, Pythagoras, Diogeonus.

When you need encouragement, he wrote explaining this practice, think of the qualities the people

around you have. Marcus was constantly thinking of the qualities of the greats and clearly

this had an effect on him as a person. Somehow, despite facing incredible temptations and

pressures, he too became a great man worthy of the countless statues made of his likeness,

many of which survived to this day. Recently, we had a discussion with the sculptor,

the S. Schubert, whom we commissioned to design the original portrait bust of Marcus Aurelius

for dailystoic.com. Given that he has spent his life shaping people's likeness into clay and

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