The Covid-19 pandemic is apparently causing a large number of mental health problems. On that subject, one could do a lot worse than read the Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC).
An attractive feature of Horace’s views about man’s efforts (including his own) to enjoy the good life is that you have to laugh about it all.
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