It is a Lonely Thing | Sweat the Small Stuff
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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. It is a lonely thing. Many people knew. They knew they were flirting. with danger.
They knew he had designs. They knew that these were compromises that violated Rome's traditions. They knew that he would never be satisfied. But they didn't do anything, they didn't say anything or try to stop it, because they weren't sure how it was going to go down. This is the story of the rise of Caesar.
It's the story of Octavian his successor. It's the story of Rome's emperors, competent and cruel alike. It is not the story of Cato, who stood up against it. It is not the story of Thracia and Helvidius, who stood against Nero.
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