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It is worth reading Seneca here knowing he wrote from both ends - enormously rich, and also eight years exiled on Corsica.\n\nMarcus offers the more portable version, and it concedes less: this is not a misfortune, but bearing it well is good fortune. That reframes without requiring you to believe the hardship was sent for your benefit.","llm_tag",15,[13,30,45,54,62,73,81,92,103,118,129,137,145,153,161,169,177,185,193,204,218,228,236,244,252,260,268,276,287,294,301,309,316,324,331,339,347,359,366,373,380,386,393,400,407,414,421,428,435,445],{"sectionId":14,"sectionLabel":15,"score":16,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":18,"relevanceNote":19,"work":20,"author":24,"readingUrl":29},677,"4.49",5,"llm_1_5","Finally, in every event which leads you to sorrow, remember to use this principle: that this is not a misfortune, but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.","Directly teaches that hardship is not misfortune but an opportunity to exercise virtue and courage—the core Stoic response to adversity.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},2,"The Meditations","meditations",{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},217,"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus","Marcus Aurelius","aurelius","/aurelius/meditations/4.49",{"sectionId":31,"sectionLabel":32,"score":16,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":33,"relevanceNote":34,"work":35,"author":39,"readingUrl":44},2676,"1.03","Lay aside lamentations and wailings, and all the usual noisy manifestations of female sorrow: you have gained nothing by so many misfortunes, if you have not learned how to suffer.","The passage is centrally about enduring severe hardship and pain with courage, and treating misfortune as training in the ability to suffer well.",{"id":36,"name":37,"urlSlug":38},205,"On Consolation - To Helvia","on-consolation-to-helvia",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},208,"Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger","Seneca","seneca","/seneca/on-consolation-to-helvia/1.03",{"sectionId":46,"sectionLabel":47,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":49,"relevanceNote":50,"work":51,"author":52,"readingUrl":53},809,"7.33",4,"On Pain: what we cannot bear removes us from life; what lasts can be borne.","The passage directly addresses how to endure pain and hardship, distinguishing what can be borne from what cannot.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/7.33",{"sectionId":55,"sectionLabel":56,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":57,"relevanceNote":58,"work":59,"author":60,"readingUrl":61},886,"8.35","3 Just as she converts every obstacle and resistance, puts it into its place in the order of necessity and makes it a part of herself, so, too, the reasonable creature can make every obstacle material for himself and employ it for whatever kind of purpose he has set out upon.","Directly addresses treating obstacles and hardship as material for development and purpose, exemplifying how adversity can be used constructively",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/8.35",{"sectionId":63,"sectionLabel":64,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":65,"relevanceNote":66,"work":67,"author":71,"readingUrl":72},2460,"2.27","To the latter class belong good men in authority, good parents, teachers, and judges, whose punishments ought to be submitted to by us in the same spirit in which we undergo the surgeon's knife, abstinence from food, and such like things which hurt us for our benefit.","Explicitly teaches that punishment and hardship (surgeon's knife, abstinence) should be submitted to as beneficial training for our good.",{"id":68,"name":69,"urlSlug":70},197,"On Anger","on-anger",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-anger/2.27",{"sectionId":74,"sectionLabel":75,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":76,"relevanceNote":77,"work":78,"author":79,"readingUrl":80},2677,"1.04","I have done this by way of a heroic remedy: for I have determined to conquer this grief of yours, not merely to limit it; and I shall conquer it, I believe, if in the first place I can prove that I am not suffering enough to entitle me to be called unhappy, let alone to justify me in rendering my family unhappy: and, secondly, if I can deal with your case and prove that even your misfortune, which comes upon you entirely through me, is not a severe one.","The passage explicitly addresses enduring hardship ('determined to conquer this grief') and treats the speaker's misfortune as something to be overcome through strength of character.",{"id":36,"name":37,"urlSlug":38},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-consolation-to-helvia/1.04",{"sectionId":82,"sectionLabel":83,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":84,"relevanceNote":85,"work":86,"author":90,"readingUrl":91},2368,"6.37","When some one tried to console our own countryman, Rutilius, for his exile, pointing out that civil war was at hand, and that all exiles would soon be restored to Rome, he answered with even greater spirit, \"What harm have I done you, that you should wish that I may return to my country more unhappily than I quit it?","Substantial treatment of exile as hardship; shows how the wise endure it with dignity and use it to reveal character",{"id":87,"name":88,"urlSlug":89},195,"On Benefits","on-benefits",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-benefits/6.37",{"sectionId":93,"sectionLabel":94,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":95,"relevanceNote":96,"work":97,"author":101,"readingUrl":102},2661,"1.14","Who could devote less than one day to mourning for two sons?","The passage treats loss and bereavement as hardship that must be endured, with examples of men facing severe misfortune.",{"id":98,"name":99,"urlSlug":100},204,"On Consolation - To Marcia","on-consolation-to-marcia",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-consolation-to-marcia/1.14",{"sectionId":104,"sectionLabel":105,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":106,"relevanceNote":107,"work":108,"author":112,"readingUrl":117},2710,"IX","Hearing ail exile lament because he was living in banishment, Musonius consoled him in somewhat the following way.","Directly addresses how to endure exile as a hardship, presenting it as something the wise person can bear without being oppressed.",{"id":109,"name":110,"urlSlug":111},207,"Lectures","lectures",{"id":113,"name":114,"shortName":115,"urlSlug":116},222,"Gaius Musonius Rufus","Musonius Rufus","rufus","/rufus/lectures/IX",{"sectionId":119,"sectionLabel":120,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":121,"relevanceNote":122,"work":123,"author":127,"readingUrl":128},2614,"1.05","While tossed hither and thither by Catiline and Clodius, Pompeius and Crassus, by some open enemies and some doubtful friends, while he struggled with the struggling republic and kept it from going to ruin, when at last he was banished, being neither able to keep silence in prosperity nor to endure adversity with patience, how often must Marcus Cicero have cursed that consulship of his which he never ceased to praise, and which nevertheless deserved it?","Cicero's exile and inability to endure adversity with patience; the example of how adversity tests the soul",{"id":124,"name":125,"urlSlug":126},202,"On the Shortness of Life","on-the-shortness-of-life",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-the-shortness-of-life/1.05",{"sectionId":130,"sectionLabel":131,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":132,"relevanceNote":133,"work":134,"author":135,"readingUrl":136},2688,"1.15","But the harder these things are to bear, the more virtue you must summon to your aid, and the more bravely you must struggle as it were with an enemy whom you know well, and whom you have already often conquered.","The passage treats grief and loss as a hardship to be endured and struggled with.",{"id":36,"name":37,"urlSlug":38},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-consolation-to-helvia/1.15",{"sectionId":138,"sectionLabel":139,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":140,"relevanceNote":141,"work":142,"author":143,"readingUrl":144},2506,"3.37","Is anyone surprised at being cold in winter? at being sick at sea? or at being jostled in the street?","Sentences 6-8 explicitly frame hardship (cold, sickness, being jostled) as preparation and training; the mind grows strong when prepared to bear evils.",{"id":68,"name":69,"urlSlug":70},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-anger/3.37",{"sectionId":146,"sectionLabel":147,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":148,"relevanceNote":149,"work":150,"author":151,"readingUrl":152},840,"7.64","Remember, too, that many disagreeable feelings are identical with pain, and yet we do not perceive that they are; drowsiness, for example, and extreme heat, and loss of appetite.","Directly about enduring physical pain and discomfort; teaches how to interpret and bear bodily hardship.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/7.64",{"sectionId":154,"sectionLabel":155,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":156,"relevanceNote":157,"work":158,"author":159,"readingUrl":160},2458,"2.25","Nothing, therefore, nourishes anger more than excessive and dissatisfied luxury: the mind ought to be hardened by rough treatment, so as not to feel any blow that is not severe.","Develops the theme that hardship and rough treatment strengthen the mind and character, preparing one to endure real difficulties.",{"id":68,"name":69,"urlSlug":70},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-anger/2.25",{"sectionId":162,"sectionLabel":163,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":164,"relevanceNote":165,"work":166,"author":167,"readingUrl":168},2252,"3.24","When Caesar was besieging Corfinium, Domitius, who was shut up in the city, ordered a slave of his own, who was also a physician, to give him poison.","Domitius faces extreme hardship—military siege and potential capture—and responds by requesting death rather than enduring capture.",{"id":87,"name":88,"urlSlug":89},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-benefits/3.24",{"sectionId":170,"sectionLabel":171,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":172,"relevanceNote":173,"work":174,"author":175,"readingUrl":176},699,"5.18","Nothing befalls anything which that thing is not naturally made to bear.","The passage is about what we are naturally able to bear when hardship befalls us, treating misfortune as something we can endure",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/5.18",{"sectionId":178,"sectionLabel":179,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":180,"relevanceNote":181,"work":182,"author":183,"readingUrl":184},574,"1.08","To be always the same, in sharp attacks of pain, in the loss of a child, in long illnesses.","Directly addresses enduring pain, loss of a child, and illness with constancy—the core of Stoic hardship training.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/1.08",{"sectionId":186,"sectionLabel":187,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":188,"relevanceNote":189,"work":190,"author":191,"readingUrl":192},2489,"3.20","When as they proceeded neither roots nor herbs were to be found in the sand, and they found a wilderness destitute even of animal life, they chose each tenth man by lot and made of him a meal which was more cruel than hunger.","Extended passage on soldiers enduring extreme hardship—starvation, cannibalism, harsh terrain—as a test of survival.",{"id":68,"name":69,"urlSlug":70},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-anger/3.20",{"sectionId":194,"sectionLabel":195,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":196,"relevanceNote":197,"work":198,"author":202,"readingUrl":203},2573,"XXVIII","This you do not understand, and you bear a countenance which does not befit your condition, like many men who sit in the circus or the theatre without having learned that their home is already in mourning: but I, looking forward from a lofty standpoint, can see what storms are either threatening you, and will burst in torrents upon you somewhat later, or are close upon you and on the point of sweeping away all that you possess.","the passage vividly describes impending hardship, loss, and misfortune—storms sweeping away possessions",{"id":199,"name":200,"urlSlug":201},199,"On the Happy Life","on-the-happy-life",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-the-happy-life/XXVIII",{"sectionId":205,"sectionLabel":206,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":207,"relevanceNote":208,"work":209,"author":213,"readingUrl":217},2914,"3.8","Why? because he has made you capable of endurance? because he has made you magnanimous? because he has taken, from that which befalls you, the power of being evils? because it is in your power to be happy while you are suffering what you suffer; because he has opened the door to you, 1 when things do not please you?","The passage substantially addresses enduring hardship (suffering, loss, imprisonment) and frames it as training in endurance and magnanimity provided by Zeus.",{"id":210,"name":211,"urlSlug":212},209,"Discourses","discourses",{"id":214,"name":215,"shortName":215,"urlSlug":216},218,"Epictetus","epictetus","/epictetus/discourses/3.8",{"sectionId":219,"sectionLabel":75,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":220,"relevanceNote":221,"work":222,"author":226,"readingUrl":227},2633,"Look around, I pray you, upon all mortals: everywhere there is ample and constant reason for weeping: one man is driven to daily labour by toilsome poverty, another is tormented by never-resting ambition, another fears the very riches that he once wished for, and suffers from the granting of his own prayer: one man is made wretched by loneliness, another by labour, another by the crowds which always besiege his antechamber.","The passage extensively lists misfortunes and hardships inherent to human life as reasons for measured endurance.",{"id":223,"name":224,"urlSlug":225},203,"On Consolation - To Polybius","on-consolation-to-polybius",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-consolation-to-polybius/1.04",{"sectionId":229,"sectionLabel":230,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":231,"relevanceNote":232,"work":233,"author":234,"readingUrl":235},1059,"12.15","If an undirected welter, be glad that in so great a flood of waves you have yourself within you a directing mind; and, if the flood carry you away, let it carry away flesh, vital-spirit, the rest of you; for your mind it shall not carry away.","The metaphor of the flood and being swept away directly addresses enduring hardship with an unbroken inner mind.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/12.15",{"sectionId":237,"sectionLabel":238,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":239,"relevanceNote":240,"work":241,"author":242,"readingUrl":243},1070,"12.26","Whenever you feel something hard to bear, you have forgotten ( a ) that all comes to pass according to the Nature of the Whole, ( b ) that the wrong is not your own but another's, further ( c ) that all that is coming to pass always did, always will, and does now everywhere thus come to pass, ( d ) the great kinship of man with all mankind, for the bond of kind is not blood nor the seed of life, but mind.","Opens by addressing things hard to bear and provides philosophical framework for enduring hardship through acceptance of nature.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/12.26",{"sectionId":245,"sectionLabel":246,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":247,"relevanceNote":248,"work":249,"author":250,"readingUrl":251},626,"4.01","It is like a fire, when it masters what falls into it, whereby a little taper would have been put out, but a bright fire very quickly appropriates and devours what is heaped upon it, and leaps up higher out of those very obstacles.","The fire metaphor illustrates how obstacles and what is heaped upon us become material for growth and strength - the essence of treating hardship as training.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/4.01",{"sectionId":253,"sectionLabel":254,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":255,"relevanceNote":256,"work":257,"author":258,"readingUrl":259},658,"4.30","'I have no bread,' he says, 'still I stand firm by the Word.' And I have nourishment from my lessons and yet do not stand firm.","The philosopher facing poverty and deprivation ('no bread,' 'half-naked') exemplifies enduring hardship with philosophical resolve.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/4.30",{"sectionId":261,"sectionLabel":262,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":263,"relevanceNote":264,"work":265,"author":266,"readingUrl":267},963,"10.03","If then it happens so that your nature can support it, do not complain but support it as it is your nature to do; but if so that your nature cannot support it, do not complain, for it will destroy you quickly.","Directly addresses enduring hardship that your nature can support, treating it as something to accept rather than resist.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/10.03",{"sectionId":269,"sectionLabel":270,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":271,"relevanceNote":272,"work":273,"author":274,"readingUrl":275},2653,"1.06","Let us, then, steer our own course, and no longer allow ourselves to be driven to leeward by the force of our misfortune.","Directly addresses enduring misfortune and the need to maintain control and composure in the face of hardship.",{"id":98,"name":99,"urlSlug":100},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-consolation-to-marcia/1.06",{"sectionId":277,"sectionLabel":278,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":279,"relevanceNote":280,"work":281,"author":285,"readingUrl":286},2591,"1.01","\"But the way by which we are asked to climb is steep and uneven.\" What then?","The passage frames the Stoic path as steep and difficult, requiring endurance, and culminates with Cato's example of bearing hardship and public humiliation without breaking.",{"id":282,"name":283,"urlSlug":284},201,"On the Firmness of a Wise Man","on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man",{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man/1.01",{"sectionId":288,"sectionLabel":75,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":289,"relevanceNote":290,"work":291,"author":292,"readingUrl":293},2594,"\"It would be better,\" say you, \"if no one wished to do so.\" You are expressing a wish that the whole human race were inoffensive, which may hardly be; moreover, those who would gain by such wrongs not being done are those who would do them, not he who could not suffer from them even if they were done; nay, I know not whether wisdom is not best displayed by calmness in the midst of annoyances, just as the greatest proof of a general's strength in arms and men consists in his quietness and confidence in the midst of an enemy's country.","The passage treats injuries and 'annoyances' (adversity) as something the wise man endures with calmness, demonstrating wisdom through calm composure amid hardship.",{"id":282,"name":283,"urlSlug":284},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man/1.04",{"sectionId":295,"sectionLabel":179,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":296,"relevanceNote":297,"work":298,"author":299,"readingUrl":300},2598,"If we accept with an undisturbed and tranquil mind that greatest terror of all, beyond which the angry laws and the most cruel masters have nothing to threaten us with, in which fortune's dominion is contained—if we know that death is not an evil, and therefore is not an injury either, we shall much more easily endure the other things, such as losses, pains, disgraces, changes of abode, bereavements, and partings, which do not overwhelm the wise man even if they all befall him at once, much less does he grieve at them when they assail him separately.","Extensively discusses enduring hardship—losses, pains, disgraces, bereavements—without grief, treating them as things the wise man bears calmly.",{"id":282,"name":283,"urlSlug":284},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man/1.08",{"sectionId":302,"sectionLabel":303,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":304,"relevanceNote":305,"work":306,"author":307,"readingUrl":308},2494,"3.25","As it is a consolation to a humble man in trouble that the greatest are subject to reverses of fortune, and a man weeps more calmly over his dead son in the corner of his hovel if he sees a piteous 10 funeral proceed out of the palace as well; so one bears injury or insult more calmly if one remembers that no power is so great as to be above the reach of harm.","The passage is substantially about enduring injury, insult, and misfortune calmly, and treating hardship (via reason and magnanimity) as something to be borne.",{"id":68,"name":69,"urlSlug":70},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-anger/3.25",{"sectionId":310,"sectionLabel":131,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":311,"relevanceNote":312,"work":313,"author":314,"readingUrl":315},2662,"Bid any number of individuals tell you the story of their lives: you will find that all have paid some penalty for being born.","The passage treats loss and grief as a universal hardship that tests character; the examples show how great men endure this suffering.",{"id":98,"name":99,"urlSlug":100},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-consolation-to-marcia/1.15",{"sectionId":317,"sectionLabel":318,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":319,"relevanceNote":320,"work":321,"author":322,"readingUrl":323},892,"8.41","Did an obstacle oppose your impulse?","Directly addresses obstacles and hindrances; teaches that adversity itself is not injurious if faced with the right perspective.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/8.41",{"sectionId":325,"sectionLabel":131,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":326,"relevanceNote":327,"work":328,"author":329,"readingUrl":330},2605,"Seek out sufferings and all things hard to be borne, repulsive to be heard or seen; he will not be overwhelmed by their combination, and will bear all just as he bears each one of them.","Explicitly discusses enduring sufferings, hardships, and things repulsive, showing how the wise person bears all adversity.",{"id":282,"name":283,"urlSlug":284},{"id":40,"name":41,"shortName":42,"urlSlug":43},"/seneca/on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man/1.15",{"sectionId":332,"sectionLabel":333,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":334,"relevanceNote":335,"work":336,"author":337,"readingUrl":338},990,"10.28","Such also is the man who groans on his bed, alone and in silence.","Directly addresses how to endure hardship - the man groaning silently exemplifies improper response to suffering that must be overcome.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/10.28",{"sectionId":340,"sectionLabel":341,"score":48,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":342,"relevanceNote":343,"work":344,"author":345,"readingUrl":346},957,"9.41","I did not even', he goes on, 'permit the medical men to give themselves airs as though they were doing some great thing, but my life passed on happily and brightly.' Do the same then as he did, in sickness if you are sick and in any other circumstance, for it is common to every school not to desert Philosophy in any at all of the accidents of life and not to gossip with the ignorant and unlearned.","Directly addresses enduring sickness as a circumstance to face with equanimity, treating it as a test where philosophy remains one's guide.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/9.41",{"sectionId":348,"sectionLabel":349,"score":350,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":351,"relevanceNote":352,"work":353,"author":357,"readingUrl":358},1097,"17",3,null,"Playing the role of a beggar or cripple suggests enduring difficult circumstances, but adversity is used illustratively rather than as the passage's main theme.",{"id":354,"name":355,"urlSlug":356},1,"The Enchiridion","enchiridion",{"id":214,"name":215,"shortName":215,"urlSlug":216},"/epictetus/enchiridion/17",{"sectionId":360,"sectionLabel":361,"score":350,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":351,"relevanceNote":362,"work":363,"author":364,"readingUrl":365},750,"6.33","Pain is mentioned but the focus is on its philosophical status rather than on enduring hardship as training.",{"id":21,"name":22,"urlSlug":23},{"id":25,"name":26,"shortName":27,"urlSlug":28},"/aurelius/meditations/6.33",{"sectionId":367,"sectionLabel":368,"score":350,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":351,"relevanceNote":369,"work":370,"author":371,"readingUrl":372},995,"10.33","The passage addresses responding to material conditions and circumstances, but frames them through control and virtue rather than endurance 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