The Daily Stoic - Don’t Let Them Steal This Too

Episode Date: July 12, 2023

People will take things from you (as we talked about recently with Epictetus and his lamp). People will betray you–as Marcus Aurelius was by his most trusted general, Avidius Cassius. People will lie, they will cheat, they will break the rules, they will blow apart the mos morium as Cato knew all too well.This will be painful. It may even be costly.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 dailystoweth.com. Don't let them steal this too. People will take things from you. As we talked about recently with Epictetus in his lamp, people will betray you, as Marcus Realis was by his most trusted general, a videoscasses. People will lie, they will cheat, they will break the rules They will blow apart. What the Romans called the Moss Morium, the old ways

Cato knew all too well, and this will be painful. It will be costly But the one thing you can't allow them to take from you the one thing you really have to protect is your belief in your love For those very same people In Meditations, Mark Surrealists talks about being in the ring with someone who was fighting dirty. He says, you can't let them turn you into a dirty fighter or worst drive you from the ring altogether. In many places in his writings, he comes back to this idea to not let in humanity drive him away from humanity, to not give up on people, to

not become cynical or bitter, to not be implicated in the ugliness. When epictetus was robbed, he could have become solent or scared, he could have become paranoid or suspicious. Instead, he just got a new lamp. When Marcus Reelius was betrayed, he could have descended into the dark places that many emperors who lived in fear of assassination daily, they descended into. Instead, he tried to use it as an opportunity to show how civil strife could be dealt with peacefully. He tried to forgive. It sucks that you were lied to, stolen from abuse, cheated. You're trust-taken advantage of, and there's no way you can get that back.

But what you can do is make sure that the most important thing of all remains in your possession, your love of other people, your tolerance from them, your willingness to help and do good for them. Don't let that be stolen too, because it's priceless. Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts. When we think of sports stories, we tend to think of tales of epic on the field glory. But the new podcast, Sports Explains the World, brings you some of the wildest and most surprising

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