Liam Milburn
@stoicbreviary.bsky.social
Author of A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice
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Icon of Holy Wisdom, Moscow (15th century)
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Icon of Holy Wisdom, Moscow (15th century)
J.M.W. Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise (1845)
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
J.M.W. Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise (1845)
I have probably attempted to write about this piece a dozen times, and there isn't a single word I can come up with to do it any justice. Its beauty just makes me weep.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, John Wilson/Philharmonia Orchestra (2020)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, John Wilson/Philharmonia Orchestra (2020)
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
YouTube video by Philharmonia Orchestra
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November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I have probably attempted to write about this piece a dozen times, and there isn't a single word I can come up with to do it any justice. Its beauty just makes me weep.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, John Wilson/Philharmonia Orchestra (2020)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, John Wilson/Philharmonia Orchestra (2020)
Ivan Aivazovsky, View of Constantinople by Evening Light (1846)
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Ivan Aivazovsky, View of Constantinople by Evening Light (1846)
We all live on the past, and through the past are destroyed.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IMAGE: Hubert Robert, Roman Ruins (c. 1760)
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IMAGE: Hubert Robert, Roman Ruins (c. 1760)
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
We all live on the past, and through the past are destroyed.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IMAGE: Hubert Robert, Roman Ruins (c. 1760)
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IMAGE: Hubert Robert, Roman Ruins (c. 1760)
Self-control is the highest virtue, and wisdom is to speak truth and consciously to act according to nature.
—Heraclitus
IMAGE: Thomas Moran, Ulysses and the Sirens (c. 1900)
—Heraclitus
IMAGE: Thomas Moran, Ulysses and the Sirens (c. 1900)
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Self-control is the highest virtue, and wisdom is to speak truth and consciously to act according to nature.
—Heraclitus
IMAGE: Thomas Moran, Ulysses and the Sirens (c. 1900)
—Heraclitus
IMAGE: Thomas Moran, Ulysses and the Sirens (c. 1900)
M.C. Escher, Lizard II (1941)
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
M.C. Escher, Lizard II (1941)
Salvator Rosa, Landscape with Jacob's Dream (c. 1665)
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Salvator Rosa, Landscape with Jacob's Dream (c. 1665)
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Jacob and the Angel (1672)
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Jacob and the Angel (1672)
Salvator Rosa, Landscape with Jacob's Dream (c. 1665)
November 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Salvator Rosa, Landscape with Jacob's Dream (c. 1665)
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Jacob and the Angel (1672)
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Jacob and the Angel (1672)
