On Adversity

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

— Seneca

Letters 107.12

Bear and forbear.

— Epictetus

Fragments, in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights 17.19

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 8.47

Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if you bear in mind that it has its limits, and if you add nothing to it in imagination.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 7.64