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, January 27, 2024

Stoic Snippets 226

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly, and another when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians.

Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.10

IMAGE: William Allan, Tartar Robbers Dividing Spoil (1817)

A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice

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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Stoic Snippets 226

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