“We give voice to our trivial cares, but suffer enormities in silence”

Phaedra, line 607 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.phaedra.shtml
Tragedies
Original: (la) Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

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