Welcome to the Daily stoic or each day. We read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength inside wisdom necessary for living good life each. One of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that is guided some of History's Greatest men and women form or you can visit us daily stoic.com
Doesn't matter what you say it matters what you do in senecas writing. He is almost unbelievably stoic. He speaks truth to power. You never despairs. He was always ethical and good but in real life, he was often afraid to challenge narrow. He felt sorry for himself while in Exile he chased wealth and fame to say this is not to indict him, but to show the difference between theory and practice take the 1st Century. BCE stoic diode timís diet Amos was from
We know a great writer and philosopher but he is most famous to us as a literary fraud and as a mean-spirited person the stoic who was sentenced to death for framing and libeling epicurus. It was as if diode Tim is forgot that philosophy wasn't a profession like Plumbing or baseball when that you can be good at while you're on the clock, but then you get to go home and you're free to behave. However, you like no philosophy is a calling. It's a way of living. It's a lifestyle.
Well as Epictetus said we can't just talk about our philosophy have to embody it. So that's the question for you. You are listening to this podcast. Maybe you're even doing your own writing about stoicism. But are you living it? If your biography was put to the test would it pass could you be proven in a court of law as having lived up to your philosophy or is it just something you pay lip service to as we've said before we get philosophy wrong when we focus too much on what the Philosopher's say.
No, it's about what they do. It's about what you do today tomorrow under pressure under Temptation. When you're angry when you're desperate when you don't think anyone is watching the stoics themselves didn't always pass this test, which is something we should study and learn from other times. They passed it with Incredible Grandeur and it shows your bones and that to something we should study and learn from and look we are very excited to announce lives of the stoics The Art of Living from Z naught.
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