Pain and its endurance
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
pain · bearing pain bravely · endurance of disease
in the texts
On Moral Ends
The question of whether physical pain constitutes an evil and how it should be endured, illustrated by Dionysius and Arcesilas
Who of us would say — we whom it does not shame to call those things which the Stoics call harsh, evils — that it is better to do something basely with pleasure than honourably with pain?
Had he been a Peripatetic, he would have remained, I believe, in his opinion — those who say pain is an evil, but, about bearing its harshness bravely, give the same precepts as the Stoics.
Letters to Lucilius
The Stoic teaching that physical pain, though real, can and must be mastered through reason and will.
"I feel grievous pain.
After this, will you not laugh at pain?
if he strains against his pain, he will conquer.