{"podcast":{"title":"Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)","slug":"dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","podcast_index_feed_id":7153387,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year","website_url":"https://perennial.substack.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/r4fig9TBtCWAsS2j5Xcs2F5bj2BhdAvU3GNP2_RSVBA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MGM0/NjFhZGE3ZDI1MjZj/ZmJkMzEwNjQ1NGI3/YTRkMy5wbmc.jpg","author":"J.W. Bertolotti","episode_count":166,"summary":"Dying Every Day is a newsletter and podcast about mortality, wisdom, discipline, attention, Stoicism, and the art of living. This is a place for meditations for mortals—reflections for people trying to live the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice in the time they have been given. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T16:19:21.028613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387"},"episode":{"title":"Day 152: Courage in Practice—Cato the Younger on Being Incorruptible | Dying Every Day","slug":"day-152-courage-in-practice-cato-the-younger-on-being-incorruptible-dying-every-day","published_at":"2026-06-25T13:37:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-152-courage-in-practice-cato-the-younger-on-being-incorruptible-dying-every-day","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/1ca67813","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/1ca67813/40e86751.mp3","summary":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 152. There is a man almost no one talks about anymore, and a small detail in his story that is hard to forget once you have noticed it. His name was Cato—Cato the Younger. He lived in the final decades of the Roman Republic, when the whole system was rotting from within. Bribery was everywhere. Everyone was on the take. Power went to whoever could buy the most votes. And Cato was the one man who would not play along. A group of candidates for office—ambitious, self-interested men, exactly the sort you would expect to cheat—made a pact among themselves. Each would put up a large sum of money, and anyone caught bribing voters would forfeit it to the others. An honor system among people with very little honor. And they needed someone to hold the money: someone who could not be leaned on, someone who could not be bought. They chose Cato. [...] #stoicism #philosophy #lifelessons --- 🖇️ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- 🦉 Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive Listen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts","meta_description":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 152. There is a ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":614,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/episodes/day-152-courage-in-practice-cato-the-younger-on-being-incorruptible-dying-every-day/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-152-courage-in-practice-cato-the-younger-on-being-incorruptible-dying-every-day.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}