A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice

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.

Friday, October 1, 2021

Stoic Snippets 103

Every instrument, tool, vessel, if it does that for which it has been made, is well, and yet he who made it is not there.

But in the things which are held together by Nature there is within, and there abides in them, the power which made them.

Wherefore the more is it fit to reverence this power, and to think that, if you live and act according to its will, everything in you is in conformity to Intelligence.

And thus also in the Universe the things which belong to it are in conformity to Intelligence.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.40

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Friday, October 1, 2021

Stoic Snippets 103

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