Not Everyone Is Lucky Enough To Do This | 9 Core Stoic Beliefs
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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. Not everyone is lucky enough to do this. You take it for granted, but not everyone
Can do it. As we said recently, the Roman Emperor didn't have the freedom to take a walk. too dangerous. He was too busy. So when Seneca wrote that we should take wandering outdoor walks so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing, He was talking about a luxury that Nero didn't enjoy. Seneca had it during his painful exile, but Nero lacked it.
On the palantine. When Seneca wrote about the noise of the baths. The messy, annoying even disgusting humanity therein. He was speaking of an experience that again, Nero, for all his power would have mostly lost. It's not just emperors who lose these things we take for granted. Uh ask a celebrity what it's like to lose their privacy or their ability to be anonymous.
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