Will then this which has happened prevent thee from being just, magnanimous, temperate, prudent, secure against inconsiderate opinions and falsehood? Will it prevent thee from having modesty, freedom, and everything else, by the presence of which man's nature obtains all that is its own? Remember too on every occasion which leads thee to vexation to apply this principle: not that this is a misfortune, but that to bear it nobly is good fortune. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 4.
Image: Pompeii, A.D. 79 by British artist Alfred Elmore, 1878, in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, courtesy of the Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons.
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