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Alain de Botton on stoicism and tsunamis "Seneca tried to calm the sense of injustice in his readers by reminding them that natural and man-made disasters will always be a feature of our lives, however sophisticated and safe we think we have become. We must therefore at all times expect the unexpected. Calm is only an interval between chaos." — The School of Life

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