#stoic influence

[philosophyfromthesource]

For fortune can afflict us with disease, take away our money, calumniate us to people or the tyrant, but it cannot make a good and brave and high-souled man bad and cowardly and ignoble and malicious, nor deprive him of the disposition which, as long as he keeps it, is of more value to him in the conduct of his life than is a pilot to a ship at sea.

Plutarch- Peace of Mind