Seneca, Epistles 78.14

ID: 140AE889-3CF6-4F96-9B3C-62E34C94F0B7
TRANSLATOR: Long
CATEGORY: [[id:3B91B13C-0961-49E0-AF8F-0786A3170346][Valuation]]
AUTHOR: Seneca
TEXT: Epistles

We should eliminiate complaints about past sufferings, I believe, and such talk as this: "Nobody ever had it worse! Such torture - it was terrible! Nobody believed I would recover. My family was in despair over me; the doctors had all given up! Men broken on the rack are not as tormented as I was!" Even if those things are true, they are over now. What is the use in reliving past sufferings, being miserable now because you were miserable then? Besides, people always embellish their troubles, deceiving even themselves.