What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
Seneca the YoungerTo things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
Seneca the Younger...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?
Seneca the Younger