Let's say your life has become full of trouble. Without realizing it, you've fallen into a trap that either public or private fortune has set for you. You can't untie it or break free. Remember this: prisoners suffer greatly at first from the chains and weights on their legs. But later, when they decide to stop fighting against them and just endure them, necessity teaches them to bear the burden bravely. Habit teaches them to bear it easily. In every situation in life, you will find amusements, relaxations, and enjoyments — as long as you're willing to make light of your troubles rather than hate them.
Suppose, however, that your life has become full of trouble, and that without knowing what you were doing you have fallen into some snare which either public or private Fortune has set for you, and that you can neither untie it nor break it: then remember that fettered men suffer much at first from the burdens and clogs upon their legs: afterwards, when they have made up their minds not to fret themselves about them, but to endure them, necessity teaches them to bear them bravely, and habit to bear them easily. In every station of life you will find amusements, relaxations, and enjoyments; that is, provided you be willing to make light of evils rather than to hate them.