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189. Adversity is just a gym to exercise your virtue

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Seneca says that the wise person (and, by extension, the practitioner of Stoicism) will deal with poverty, sorrow, disgrace or pain, because she is alert and fortified, ready to treat adversity as a way to improve her character.

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