Sobre a vida feliz
Aula aberta sobre a nova edição da obra “Sobre a vida feliz”, de Sêneca.
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; they certainly have not yet come.
Accordingly, some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.
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