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Author Nancy Sherman on Building Resilience and Living Well | What Are You Making Up About This? That’s The Question.

The Daily Stoic

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Grief Is a Complimented Emotion for the Romans

Grief is a complicated emotion for the romans. They hire keeners to women to grieve for them and to cry. So too, the romans really have their own mourning practices. And seneca sort of struggles with that. You can shed them involuntarily, but if you indulge them, like put on a show. To feel an em is not to show it, necessarily, or express it. There two different moments of the emotion.

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