It’s No Good Without This | Epicurus’ Secret to the Good Life
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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. Hey there, just a heads up, I'm going to be on tour this summer. and fall. You can come see me in San Francisco and Portland in June. You can see me in Australia and New Zealand in October.
In August, I'm mixing my months up here, but in August you can see me in Chicago, in Minneapolis, and Detroit. Then I'll be on the East Coast sometime in November and December. Anyways, grab tickets for that, dailystoiclive.com. Hope to see you there. It's no good without this.
Maybe it'll help you get ahead, maybe it will help you get rich, maybe it will help you get closer to power, help you keep power. As we see with Seneca, compromises can pay off, but they come at a high cost. Seneca was more pragmatic, more ambitious, more willing to turn a blind eye than his fellow Stoics, like Thracia, who I profile in Lives of the Stoics, and this made him rich, it made him powerful, but he paid for it with his integrity and his peace, and in the end he paid for it with his life. For what is a man profited, goes one of the most haunting questions in the book of Matthew, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul.
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