Daily Stoic: Ancient wisdom for everyday life

Inspo From Rome

Life endures. That’s what it does.

Right now, this feels like an unprecedented crisis. Nearly a million people have died worldwide from a virus for which there may or may not be a vaccine depending on who you ask.

In the midst of this pandemic, the Russians poisoned another opposition leader, the Chinese are threatening Taiwan again, Americans are at each other’s throats in the run up to what many believe is the most consequential election in American history since, well, the Civil War, and the global economy has slowed to a crawl while the stock market continues to hit new seemingly inexplicable highs.

Nobody really knows what’s going on. Nobody trusts anybody. Nobody knows who to believe. And both lives and livelihoods are hanging in the balance. 

It’s a nightmare. Will we ever survive this? Well, one place to find an answer is to look to the past…

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