Era
Roman Empire
It Is Not the Thing That Disturbs You
If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
We Suffer More Often in Imagination
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.