“It is best to endure what you cannot change.”
Seneca wrote this late in his life, after years of navigating Nero's court — a man who had watched political winds destroy careers, emperors turn on advisors, and circumstances shift without warning. He arrived at a principle that was hard-earned: there are things within your control and things that are not.
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