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, May 19, 2020
Epictetus, Golden Sayings 121
A Philosopher's school is a Surgery: pain, not pleasure, you should have felt therein. For on entering none of you is whole.
One has a shoulder out of joint, another an abscess. A third suffers from an issue, a fourth from pains in the head.
And am I then to sit down and treat you to pretty sentiments and empty flourishes, so that you may applaud me and depart, with neither shoulder, nor head, nor issue, nor abscess a whit the better for your visit?
Is it then for this that young men are to quit their homes, and leave parents, friends, kinsmen and substance to mouth out "Bravo!" to your empty phrases?
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