The Past Is Looking Brighter All The Time
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. The past is looking brighter. All the time.
There was once a time when rulers were philosophers. There was a time when the Emperor of Rome sold the palace furnishings to pay down the Empire's debts. There was a time when a politician like Cato would rather die than submit to Caesar. There was a time when men like Agrippinus or Rutilius would choose exile. over going along with corruption.
A time when stoics like Helvidius spoke truth to power. Regardless of the consequences. It was long ago, but it was real. The glory that was Rome, that was classical Greece. And although we have inherited that legacy, it's not one that's lived up to. If Meditations is antiquity, the Soviet dissident Joseph Brodsky once said,
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