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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 78.13


nanBut do not of your own accord make your troubles heavier to bear and burden yourself with complaining. Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; but if, on the other hand, you begin to encourage yourself and say, "It is nothing, – a trifling matter at most; keep a stout heart and it will soon cease"; then in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion; ambition, luxury, greed, hark back to opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer.


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1. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 2.61 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.61. at non noster Posidonius; possidon. X quem et ipse saepe vidi et id dicam, quod solebat narrare Pompeius, se, cum secum X (ipse cum R c ) Rhodum venisset decedens ex Syria, ex yria K audire voluisse Posidonium; possidon. X sed cum audisset eum graviter esse aegrum, quod vehementer eius artus laborarent, voluisse tamen nobilissimum philosophum philosoph um R visere: quem ut vidisset et et add. V c salutavisset honorificisque verbis prosecutus esset molesteque se dixisset dixs. G ferre, quod eum non posset audire, at ille: tu vero inquit potes, nec committam, necomitam G ( ss. 2 ) KR (nec om. K 2 R) ne commitam V neccommittam s ut dolor corporis efficiat, ut frustra tantus vir ad me venerit. itaque narrabat eum graviter et copiose de hoc ipso, nihil esse nihil esse nihile G 1 bonum nisi quod esset honestum, cubantem disputavisse, cumque quasi faces ei doloris admoverentur, admoverentur -rentur in r. V c saepe dixisse: dixs. G
2. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 71.29 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 11.110-11.161 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

4. Sextus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, 3.235-3.237 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

5. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 3.391



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
ambition Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
apatheia, freedom from, eradication of, emotion (; pyrrhonian sceptics Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
ataraxia, freedom from disturbance Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
avaritia Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
baias Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
burnyeat, myles Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
chrysippus Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
cicero Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
cupiditas Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
dolor Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
fighting (of vices and virtue) Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
greediness Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
pain, physical Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
passion Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
posidonius, stoic, and pain not an evil Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
poverty vii Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
pyrrhonian sceptics, apatheia for emotions Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
pyrrhonian sceptics, metriopatheia for physical pain Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
reason Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
seneca, the younger, stoic, even physical pain reduced by opinion Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
seneca Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
sextus empiricus, pyrrhonian sceptic, apatheia for emotion Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
sextus empiricus, pyrrhonian sceptic, metriopatheia for physical pain Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198
torture Romana Berno, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History (2023) 171
unnatural Clarke, King, Baltussen, Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (2023) 112
zeno of citium, stoic, hence different conception of freedom from emotion(apatheia)' Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 198