Show me a person who is sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy,
in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy. Show that person to me for, by the gods,
I wish to see a Stoic. If you cannot show me such a one, at least show me one who
is forming, one who has shown a tendency to be a Stoic. Do me this favor. Do not
begrudge an old man seeing a sight which I have not yet seen.

Epictetus Discourses, Bk II, chapter 19