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The Daily Stoic · 2026-10-23 · 6 min · 928 words

True Freedom Requires This | Two Tasks

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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. Epictetus was born into slavery. This would have been a

profoundly painful experience that left many scars His thirty years in bondage left him with a limp for the rest of his life, courtesy Of a sadistic owner who tortured him. In Rome at that time, many people believed that only Free people were capable of being educated.

But the indisputable truth that Epictetus saw every day in the moral disorder and dysfunction of Nero's court Where his master served as a high profile secretary was that it was in fact The opposite. Only The educated, he said.

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