From Seneca On Providence
“Without an antagonist prowess fades away. Its true proportions and capacities come to light only when action proves its endurance. You must know that good men should behave similarly; they must not shrink from hardship and difficulty or complain of fate; they should take whatever befalls in good part and turn it to advantage. The thing that matters is not what you bear but how you bear it.”
“God’s attitude to good men is a father’s; his love for them is a manly love. ‘Let them be harassed by toil and sorrow and loss,’ says he, ‘that so they may acquire true strength.’ Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth… but a man who has been at constant feud with misfortunes acquires a skin calloused by suffering; he yields to no evil and even if he stumbles carries the fight upon his knees.”
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Ah, Seneca! The classics ain’t called classics fer nuthin’!
I’ve been reading the Stoics since last winter. I’ve enjoyed them and have even shared some of it with my old man. I think he really liked Epictetus. I used to think I was born 150 years too late now I’m thinking maybe its 2100 to 2200 years too late. I suppose Seneca would say I am exactly where I am supposed to be. And he’d probably add “suck it up princess” for good measure.
I read Marcus Aurelius when I was young; wish I had more of his virtues.