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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Monday, November 13, 2023
Ralph Waldo Emerson 3
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.
In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Divinity College Address
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