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.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Stoic Snippets 190

He who acts unjustly, acts impiously.

For since the Universal Nature has made rational animals for the sake of one another, to help one another according to their deserts, but in no way to injure one another, he who transgresses Her will is clearly guilty of impiety towards the Highest Divinity.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.1

IMAGE: Jean-Marc Nattier, Allegory of Justice Punishing Injustice (1737)

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