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March 31 - April 23, 2025
To be the same in all situations: in terrible pain, or suffering the loss of a child, or enduring chronic illness. To understand a person can be both resolute and compromising.
Deny the thought and you deny the complaint. “I have been harmed,� and it is so. “I have not been harmed,� and so it is.
As Agathon says, don’t be distracted by the depravity of others, but follow the straight line ahead without deviation.
Be like the promontory against which the waves continually smash and break—it stands firm, unmoved by the furious sea.
Remember this when you get frustrated: there is no misfortune that isn’t fortunate to those who bear it nobly.
