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, July 8, 2022

Stoic Snippets 151

You have not leisure to read?

But you have leisure to check arrogance.

You have leisure to be superior to pleasure and pain.

You have leisure to be superior to love of fame, and not to be vexed at stupid and ungrateful people, nay even to care for them.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.8

IMAGE: Hans Sebald Beham, Patience (1540)

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Friday, July 8, 2022

Stoic Snippets 151

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