Letter 96: On Facing Hardships

Letter 96 is short, sharp, and bracing. Lucilius has been complaining — about illness, losses, the general difficulty of life — and Seneca responds with tough love. His central claim is startling: in all the troubles you re listing, there s really only one evil, and it s the complaining itself. Hardships, he argues, aren t accidents that befall [ ] The post Letter 96: On Facing Hardships first…