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“I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.”
― The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
― The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.”
― Discourses and Selected Writings
― Discourses and Selected Writings
“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”
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“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.”
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
― Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
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