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.
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
Maxims of Goethe 9
Our plans and designs should be so perfect in truth and beauty, that in touching them the world could only mar.
We should thus have the advantage of setting right what is wrong, and restoring what is destroyed.
IMAGE: Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Mendelssohn plays to Goethe in 1830 (1864)
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