acceptance of fate
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
acceptance · assenting to fate · endurance of adversity · tributes of life · what befalls · what is allotted
in the texts
Meditations
The Stoic disposition of welcoming and accepting whatever events fate or nature brings.
If, then, there befalls each what is wont and natural to it, why should you be discontented?
But if you are grieved by something in your own disposition, who prevents you from setting your principle right?
I receive it, referring it to the gods and the source of all things, from which all that comes to pass is woven together.
Letters to Lucilius
The Stoic idea that hardships are decreed by fate/God and must be accepted with equanimity rather than resented.
But all the things over which we groan, which we dread, are the tributes of life;
it is a part of fate.
I will go nearer still, you feared for your life.