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"Cato did not want a civil war. Julius Caesar probably thought that if he marched on Rome, Cato\\u2019s opposition would evaporate. He was mistaken. James Garfield didn\\u2019t want a civil war either. As the South ratcheted up their aggression in the 1860s, Southern fire-eaters assumed that the North would compromise, as they had time and time again. They weren\\u2019t counting on resistance like the kind they found in men like Garfield and Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. 'Of course I deprecate war,' Garfield famously said later in life, 'but if it is brought to my door, the bringer will find me home.'\\xa0

In a way, this perfectly captures the Stoic approach, not just to war but to life."

Ryan describes how a Stoic treats the obstacles and problems that they encounter on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.

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