So look at the abilities you have. When you see them clearly, say this: "Bring it on, Zeus. Send me whatever challenge you want. You gave me the tools and the strength to honor myself through whatever happens." But you don't do this. Instead, you sit there shaking with fear about what might happen. You cry and complain and moan about what does happen. Then you blame the gods. What does this cowardice lead to? It's basically disrespectful to God. Yet God didn't just give us these abilities so we could handle anything without being crushed or broken by it.
Come, then, do you also having observed these things look to the faculties which you have, and when you have looked at them, say: Bring now, O Zeus, any difficulty that thou pleasest, for I have means given to me by thee and powers for honoring myself through the things which happen. You do not so; but you sit still, trembling for fear that some things will happen, and weeping, and lamenting, and groaning for what does happen; and then you blame the gods. For what is the consequence of such meanness of spirit but impiety? And yet God has not only given us these faculties, by which we shall be able to bear everything that happens without being depressed or broken by it;