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attributed in Noctes Atticae Aulus Gellius (second century A.D.)De Ira De Providentia "De Tranquillitate Animi" ("On Tranquility of Mind") Moral Essays Epistulae ad Lucilium

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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.

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Seneca (c. 5–65), Roman writer, philosopher, statesman. "De Tranquillitate Animi" ("On Tranquility of Mind"), sect. 2, subsect. 15, Moral Essays.

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