The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Seneca the YoungerI can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
Seneca the YoungerEverything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
Seneca the Younger