Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jun 2016
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The Daily Stoic · You Don’t Need Your Books | 9 Stoic Lessons From Roman Politics · 16 Sep 2026
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11labs.io slash stoic.
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So right behind me here was Augustus' house, the first emperor.
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But Augustus has two Stoic teachers, Athenodorus and Arius Didymus.
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Okay, so what did these Stoic teachers teach the first emperor of Rome?
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Well they taught him when his name was Octavian.
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The first one was this idea that before you get angry, you should count all 24 letters of the alphabet, the Latin alphabet having only 24 letters then.
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Athenodorus tells Octavian that before he gets upset, he should count all of these.
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Letters.
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The idea in stoicism is the pause and the reflection before you take the action, putting the impression, putting the feeling, putting the emotion to the test.
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It's not that we don't have the emotion, it's that we try not to act on the emotion in the heat of it, right?
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Because this is so often when we do the thing that we regret, or we make the mistakes that cause problems for people.
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And then the second, this is Octavian's favorite saying, Faustina lente.
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Make haste.
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Slowly stoicism is deliberation, це discipline.
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Not too fast, not too slow.
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The virtues being a midpoint between two vices.
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It was remarkable in the ancient world and it's remarkable now.
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When Antoninus Pius becomes emperor.
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This is the
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