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, April 13, 2024

Stoic Snippets 236

Let it not be in any man's power to say truly of you that you are not simple or that you are not good; but let him be a liar whoever shall think anything of this kind about you; and this is altogether in your power.

For who is he that shall hinder you from being good and simple?

Do you only determine to live no longer unless you shall be such. For neither does reason allow you to live, if you are not such.

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.32

IMAGE: Jean Geoffroy, The Prayer of the Humble (1893)

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