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, March 12, 2019
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15
[9] What gain has the worker from his toil?
[10] I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
[11] He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
[12] I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
[13] also that it is God's gift to man that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.
[14] I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.
[15] That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
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