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We owe liberty to Brutus, but we owe Brutus to Lucretia...
Seneca, the feminist icon that you are-

If, again, you admit that you have received much pleasure, it is your duty not to complain of that part which you have lost, but to return thanks for that which you have enjoyed.”

“Why do you grieve over your lost son? is it because you have received no pleasure from him, or because you would have received more had he lived longer? If you answer that you have received no pleasure from him you make your loss more endurable: for men miss less when lost what has given them no enjoyment or gladness.

“Why need we weep over parts of our life? the whole of it calls for tears: new miseries assail us before we have freed ourselves from the old ones. ”

Why then, you ask, do we show / persistence in mourning 4 our friends, if it be not nature that bids us do so?
/ because we never expect that any evil will befall ourselves before it comes, we will not be taught by seeing the misfortunes of others that they are the common inheritance of all men, but imagine that the path which we have begun to tread is free from them & less beset by dangers than that of other people.

Intensiv men kort sorg är hälsosamt: motsatsen är kulturellt betingad.

Drusus, sorgen efter.