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LIAM MILBURN: Stoic Reflections on Friendship
LIAM MILBURN: Stoic Reflections on Hardship
LIAM MILBURN: Reflections on Seneca: The Happy Life
LIAM MILBURN: Reflections on Seneca: Peace of Mind
LIAM MILBURN: To Want for Nothing: Reflections on Musonius Rufus
LIAM MILBURN: The Things in Our Power: Reflections on the Handbook of Epictetus
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 1-4
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 5-6
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 7
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 8
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 9
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 10
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 11-12
LIAM MILBURN: Rule Your Hearts by Love: Reflections on the Consolation of Boethius
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Tao Te Ching 38
Those who possessed in highest degree the attributes of the Tao did
not seek to show them, and therefore they possessed them in fullest
measure. Those who possessed in a lower degree those attributes sought how not to lose them, and therefore they did not possess them in fullest measure.
Those who possessed in the highest degree those attributes did nothing with a purpose, and had no need to do anything. Those who possessed
them in a lower degree were always doing, and had need to be so
doing.
Those who possessed the highest benevolence were always seeking to
carry it out, and had no need to be doing so. Those who possessed the
highest righteousness were always seeking to carry it out, and had
need to be so doing.
Those who possessed the highest sense of propriety were always
seeking to show it, and when men did not respond to it, they bared the
arm and marched up to them.
Thus it was that when the Tao was lost, its attributes appeared; when
its attributes were lost, benevolence appeared; when benevolence was
lost, righteousness appeared; and when righteousness was lost, the
proprieties appeared.
Now propriety is the attenuated form of loyal-heartedness and good faith,
and is also the commencement of disorder; swift apprehension is only a
flower of the Tao, and is the beginning of stupidity.
Thus it is that the Great man abides by what is solid, and eschews what
is flimsy; dwells with the fruit and not with the flower. It is thus
that he puts away the one and makes choice of the other.
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