On the healing power of the mind
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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.
7.
Let us now return to the consideration of the characteristic disadvantage of disease: it is accompanied by great suffering.
The suffering, however, is rendered endurable by interruptions; for the strain of extreme pain must come to an end.
No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short.
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 7
Content:
7.
Let us now return to the consideration of the characteristic disadvantage of disease: it is accompanied by great suffering.
The suffering, however, is rendered endurable by interruptions; for the strain of extreme pain must come to an end.
No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short.