People find particular things, however, frightening; and it's when someone is able to threaten or entice us with those that the man himself becomes f… - Epictetus

It’s like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he’s given.

"Above all, remember that the door stands open. Be not more fearful than children; but as they, when they weary of the game, cry, "I will play no more," even so, when thou art in the like case, cry, "I will play no more" and depart. But if thou stayest, make no lamentation."

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.