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Composure
It Is Not the Thing That Disturbs You
If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
Supreme Excellence Is Not the Battle
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
We Suffer More Often in Imagination
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.