On the healing power of the mind
78:2
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The second volume of Seneca's moral letters to Lucilius. Each letter contains Seneca's advice and wisdom won from a life of Roman politics.
2.
I often entertained the impulse of ending my life then and there; but the thought of my kind old father kept me back.
For I reflected, not how bravely I had the power to die, but how little power he had to bear bravely the loss of me.
And so I commanded myself to live.
For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the healing power of the mind
Location: Chapter 78, Section 2
Content:
2.
I often entertained the impulse of ending my life then and there; but the thought of my kind old father kept me back.
For I reflected, not how bravely I had the power to die, but how little power he had to bear bravely the loss of me.
And so I commanded myself to live.
For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.