Benjamin Sadlek

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Yes, for there is no more virtue in accepting death when one hates life, than there is in leaving a place when one is ejected.] For what virtue is there in going away when you are thrust out? And yet there is virtue even in this: I am indeed thrust out, but it is as if I were going away willingly. For that reason the wise man can never be thrust out, because that would mean removal from a place which he was unwilling to leave; and the wise man does nothing unwillingly. He escapes necessity, because he wills to do what necessity is about to force upon him.
Letters from a Stoic
by Seneca
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