The Daily Stoic · 2026-10-07 · 3 min · 326 words

BONUS | A Selfish Reason To Be Good

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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. October seventh. A selfish reason.

To be good. The person who does wrong is Does wrong to themselves. The unjust person. is unjust to themselves.

Making themselves. Evil. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book nine.

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