A Stoic Breviary

seneca's oedipus is hilarious for beginning with oedipus looking at the divine plague in thebes and going oh we WILL find out who's to blame for this

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

As generation is, so also death, a secret of nature’s wisdom: a mixture of elements, resolved into the same elements again, a thing surely which no man ought to be ashamed of: in a series of other fatal events and consequences, which a rational creature is subject unto, not improper or incongruous, nor contrary to the natural and proper constitution of man himself.

“To tolerate foolishness much patience is needed. Sometimes we suffer most from those we most depend upon, and this helps us conquer ourselves. Patience leads to an inestimable inner peace, which is bliss on earth.”