"You will then realize that there is nothing fearful there except fear itself."

By: vivian on sábado, setembro 23, 2017

“You will then realize that there is nothing fearful there except fear itself.”

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Seneca the Younger, circa 50 CE. He was a Stoic, and wrote this quote in a letter to Lucilius Junior. Lucilius Junior was a financial officer in Siciliy who was experiencing “unspecified anxieties.” Maybe a case of Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

His friend Seneca the Younger tried to help out by writing letters in which he explained Stoic philosophy. These letters were so well-regarded that they were compiled and published as Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius). As a result, we have quite a good record of what Stoicism looked like during the mid-first century CE.

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