true strength lies in willing acceptance

“Lead me, O Zeus, and thou, Destiny,

To wheresoever ye have assigned me.

I shall follow without reluctance;

But if I refuse, wicked that I am,

I shall follow nonetheless.”

— Cleanthes, successor to Zeno and head of the Stoic school

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