Stoicism is just one of many philosophies that can help a person live a good and upright life. Winston churchill famously said, those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. But he might have also warned us that those who are ignorant of history can never leverage it to improve themselves a hundredfold. My friend garry has a podcast alled everything everywhere, daily. It's a history podcast. And i would encourage you to seek it out because there is little a person can do to improve themselves more powerful than to continuously learn.