Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-11-13
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Every generation thinks its problems are unprecedented, its fears are new, its circumstances uniquely difficult. Then we read Marcus.
Ryan Holiday discussed Ecclesiastes by Philip Graham Ryken, The Maxims of Francis Guicciardini by Francesco Guicciardini and others, and Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini by Francesco Guicciardini and others.
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Ecclesiastes
Discussed“But as Ecclesiastes reminds us, there is no new thing under the sun. What has been will be again.”
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The Maxims of Francis Guicciardini
Discussed“Centuries later, the historian Francesco Giacardini observed much the same thing in his maxims and reflections. Everything that has been in the past and is in the present will be in the future, he wrote.”
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Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini
Discussed“Centuries later, the historian Francesco Giacardini observed much the same thing in his maxims and reflections. Everything that has been in the past and is in the present will be in the future, he wrote.”
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