“Accept in an unruffled spirit that which is inevitable.”

—  Seneca the Younger , book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIX: On Consolation to the Bereaved

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