Provoked by the sight of a handsome man or a beautiful woman, you will discover within you the contrary power of self-restraint. Faced with pain, you will discover the power of endurance. If you are insulted, you will discover patience. In time, you will grow to be confident that there is not a single impression that you will not have the moral

the spirit gives the strongest proof of its resolve by not being attracted or distracted by pleasures which lead to self-indulgence.

“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”