An idea from Nicomachean Ethics

A good person makes the best of what fortune deals, as a good shoemaker makes the best shoes from the hides he gets. Small losses don’t unseat that life. Disasters like Priam’s, the king who lost Troy and his sons, can still take its blessedness away.

From Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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