A passage from Seneca
Seneca, Consolation to Marcia 11
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It is the mind that must be armed against adversity.
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Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
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Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.