BY THEME
On Adversity
On hardship, obstacles, and the Stoic art of being unshakeable.
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Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
Discourses 1.24
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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.
Discourses 1.24
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Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it cannot.
Enchiridion 43
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Nothing is more admirable in a man than his conduct in unexpected difficulties.
Lectures 7
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We must not fear poverty nor death, but the fear of them.
Lectures 9
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To endure hardship is a noble and manly thing.
Lectures 7
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Lectures 6
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Fragment, in Cicero Tusculan Disputations 2.29
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Nothing happens to any creature but what is contrary to its nature.
Fragment, in Plutarch Stoic Repugnance 32
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Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
Attributed