Liam Milburn
@stoicbreviary.bsky.social
Author of A Stoic Breviary: Classical Wisdom in Daily Practice
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Pinned
Adam Elsheimer, Jacob's Dream (c. 1598)
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Adam Elsheimer, Jacob's Dream (c. 1598)
Odilon Redon, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (c. 1905)
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Odilon Redon, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (c. 1905)
A handsome couple
February 7, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A handsome couple
IMAGE by Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove
February 7, 2026 at 12:42 AM
IMAGE by Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove
An honorable man with limited ideas often sees through the rascality of the most cunning jobber.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
February 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM
An honorable man with limited ideas often sees through the rascality of the most cunning jobber.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ὁμίλει πρᾴως
Live together meekly
—Delphic Maxims
IMAGE: John Everett Millais, Peace Concluded (1856)
Live together meekly
—Delphic Maxims
IMAGE: John Everett Millais, Peace Concluded (1856)
February 3, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Ὁμίλει πρᾴως
Live together meekly
—Delphic Maxims
IMAGE: John Everett Millais, Peace Concluded (1856)
Live together meekly
—Delphic Maxims
IMAGE: John Everett Millais, Peace Concluded (1856)
There is little chance of a ship running astray, so long as its compass points towards the true North.
So if the mind of man—the compass needle of the ship of life—is turned always towards the Supreme Brahman, without oscillation, it will steer clear of every danger.
—Ramakrishna
So if the mind of man—the compass needle of the ship of life—is turned always towards the Supreme Brahman, without oscillation, it will steer clear of every danger.
—Ramakrishna
February 3, 2026 at 12:58 AM
There is little chance of a ship running astray, so long as its compass points towards the true North.
So if the mind of man—the compass needle of the ship of life—is turned always towards the Supreme Brahman, without oscillation, it will steer clear of every danger.
—Ramakrishna
So if the mind of man—the compass needle of the ship of life—is turned always towards the Supreme Brahman, without oscillation, it will steer clear of every danger.
—Ramakrishna
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
—from Henry David Thoreau, Journals (9 January, 1842)
—from Henry David Thoreau, Journals (9 January, 1842)
February 1, 2026 at 12:20 AM
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
—from Henry David Thoreau, Journals (9 January, 1842)
—from Henry David Thoreau, Journals (9 January, 1842)
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law.
—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (4 March, 1831)
—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (4 March, 1831)
February 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. It acknowledges that it is not equal to the whole of truth, that it legislates, tyrannizes over a village of God's empires but is not the immutable universal law.
—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (4 March, 1831)
—from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (4 March, 1831)
