Hardship and Happiness (Ad Marciam De consolatione, Ad Helviam matrem De consolatione, De Consolatione ad Polybium, De Brevitate Vitæ, De Constantia Sapientis, De Tranquillitate Animi, De Otio, De Vita Beata, De Providentia)

by Seneca

Nevertheless, thanks to your quick and voracious intellect, you took in a great deal for the amount of time you had; the foundations for every branch of philosophical study have been laid. Return to those studies now, and they will keep you safe. (5) They will bring you comfort, they will give you pleasure. If they truly enter your mind, never again will grief gain entry, and never will anxiety, and never the unnecessary distress caused by suffering that is pointless. Your heart will be open to none of these; for it has long been closed to all other moral failings. These studies are your surest form of protection, and the only resource that can rescue you from fortune’s power.

Kindet words never written