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Dying Daily: Two Paradoxes, One Truth | Dying Every Day
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- May 23, 2026
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đŽ Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. One Stoic text that doesnât get nearly enough attention is Ciceroâs Stoic Paradoxesâsix ideas that seem like contradictions until you understand what the Stoics actually mean. In this Dying Daily, we sit with one of them: the claim that virtue alone is sufficient for happiness. To test it, we go to September 9th, 1965âthe moment Navy pilot James Stockdale ejected from his burning plane over North Vietnam. He had thirty seconds of freefall. His last thought in freedom: âIâm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.â He endured seven and a half years at the Hanoi Hilton, sustained by a philosophy his captors could not break. This is the essence of the Stockdale Paradox and Ciceroâs Paradoxâtwo thousand years apart, yet conveying the same insight. [...] #stoicism, #philsophy, #meditation, #selfimprovement --- đď¸ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- đŚ Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive Listen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts