Building upon many years of privately shared thoughts on the real benefits of Stoic Philosophy, Liam Milburn eventually published a selection of Stoic passages that had helped him to live well. They were accompanied by some of his own personal reflections. This blog hopes to continue his mission of encouraging the wisdom of Stoicism in the exercise of everyday life. All the reflections are taken from his notes, from late 1992 to early 2017.
The Death of Marcus Aurelius
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Epictetus, Golden Sayings 31
You are impatient and hard to please.
If alone, you call it solitude.
If in the company of men, you dub them conspirators and thieves, and find fault with your very parents, children, brothers, and neighbors.
Whereas when by yourself you should have called it Tranquillity and Freedom, and herein deemed yourself like unto the Gods.
And when in the company of many, you should not have called it a wearisome crowd and tumult, but an assembly and a tribunal, and thus accepted all with contentment.
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