[Seeing the good in the bad that happens] we should practice and work on first of all - like the man who threw a stone at his dog but missed and hit his stepmother. "Not so bad!" he said. For it is possible to change what we get out of things that do not go as we wish. Diogenes was driven into exile: "Not so bad!" - for it was after his banishment that he took up philosophy.
- Plutarch, On Tranquility of Mind.
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