“It is nothing—a trifling matter at most; keep a stout heart and it will soon cease”; then in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion; ambition, luxury, greed, hark back to opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer.
Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
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