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Originally Posted by Konstantin
Definitely look into "Letters from a Stoic" and, if you can get your hands on it, "On the shortness of life" by Seneca. The former, especially, is an amazing book.
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Thanks.
"I can think of nothing that is worth prizing highly or pursuing seriously. No; what a man must do is to nerve himself to wait quietly for his natural dissolution; and meanwhile not to chafe at its delay, but to find his sole consolation in two thoughts: first, that nothing can ever happen to us that is not in accordance with nature; and second, that power to abstain from acting against the divine spirit within me lies in my own hands, since there is no man alive who can force such disobedience upon me." (Marcus Aurelius, Book 5, Chapter 10)
True goth literature in my opinion.