[13] ‘What good will you get from death?’ ‘I will make it your glory, or the occasion for you to show how a person obeys the will of nature.’ [14] ‘What will you make of illness?’ ‘I will expose its true nature by outdoing myself in calmness and serenity; I will neither beg the doctor’s help, nor pray for death. [15] What more could you ask? Everything, you see, that you throw at me I will transform into a blessing, a boon – something dignified, even enviable.’
