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
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
[1] There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:
[2] a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.
[3] If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
[4] For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
[5] moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
[6] Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?
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