Seneca the Younger Quotes About Pain

• Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Pain, Release

  "Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

• Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

  Seneca the Younger

  Girl, Art, Pain

• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Badass, Quality

  Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV

• Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Judging, Grace

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

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