On Adversity

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

Letters from a Stoic 13

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

— Seneca

Moral Letters

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 5.20

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

— Seneca

Letters from a Stoic 77.18

He suffers more than necessary who suffers before it is necessary.

— Seneca

Letters from a Stoic 98.8

It is the power of the mind to be unconquered.

— Seneca

Letters from a Stoic 71

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 2.1

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 7.8

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 5.18

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; it stands firm and the raging of the sea falls still around it.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 4.49