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For one gains by losing

And loses by gaining.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow.

Another thing of course is life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t. And there I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an

Neither give littleness, nor accept it.

We are defined by what we choose to reject.