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.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Stoic Snippets 217

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks!

Why are you disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles you?

Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing.

Towards the gods then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.37

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