Every human situation, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus once warned, is like a vase with two handles: If you have quarreled with your brother, you can grasp the handle which is the fact that you have quarreled, or you can grasp the handle which is the fact that he is your brother.
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
Men are disturbed, not by things that happen, but by their opinion of things that happen.