2.
None of these things is unusual or unexpected.
It is as nonsensical to be put out by such events as to complain of being spattered in the street or at getting befouled in the mud.
The programme of life is the same as that of a bathing establishment, a crowd, or a journey: sometimes things will be thrown at you, and sometimes they will strike you by accident.
Life is not a dainty business.
You have started on a long journey; you are bound to slip, collide, fall, become weary, and cry out: “O for Death!”—or in other words, tell lies.
At one stage you will leave a comrade behind you, at another you will bury someone, at another you will be apprehensive.
It is amid stumblings of this sort that you must travel out this rugged journey.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On obedience to the universal will
Location: Chapter 107, Section 2
Content:
2.
None of these things is unusual or unexpected.
It is as nonsensical to be put out by such events as to complain of being spattered in the street or at getting befouled in the mud.
The programme of life is the same as that of a bathing establishment, a crowd, or a journey: sometimes things will be thrown at you, and sometimes they will strike you by accident.
Life is not a dainty business.
You have started on a long journey; you are bound to slip, collide, fall, become weary, and cry out: “O for Death!”—or in other words, tell lies.
At one stage you will leave a comrade behind you, at another you will bury someone, at another you will be apprehensive.
It is amid stumblings of this sort that you must travel out this rugged journey.