About pain: the pain which is intolerable carries us off; but that which lasts a long time is tolerable; and the mind maintains its own tranquillity by retiring into itself, and the ruling faculty is not made worse.
But the parts which are harmed by pain, let them, if they can, give their opinion about it.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.33
IMAGE: Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses (July, 1889 version)
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