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Professor Josiah Osgood on Cato, Caesar and the Battle for Rome's Legacy

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Cato's Decision to Leave the World to Take His Own Life

"There's no one that the story ends well for. Uh, not Caesar, not Cato, not Pompey, not Rome," he says. "You know, you may not come out victorious in the end, but at least, you know, you did what was right." He adds: "I've set an example for later dissidents ... even got Cicero to sort of make a similar heroic stance"

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