On the healing power of the mind
78:24
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.
24. “Poor sick fellow!”—he will eat as much as he can digest.
There will be no boar lying before his eyes, banished from the table as if it were a common meat; and on his sideboard there will be heaped together no breast-meat of birds, because it sickens him to see birds served whole.
But what evil has been done to you?
You will dine like a sick man, nay, sometimes like a sound man.
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 24
Content:
24. “Poor sick fellow!”—he will eat as much as he can digest.
There will be no boar lying before his eyes, banished from the table as if it were a common meat; and on his sideboard there will be heaped together no breast-meat of birds, because it sickens him to see birds served whole.
But what evil has been done to you?
You will dine like a sick man, nay, sometimes like a sound man.