Hardship (n.) is relative to softness: frugality is punishment to the lover of luxury, study torture to the slothful, and what we call intolerable is the defect of the soft, not of the thing.
Hardship (n.) once rehearsed is not only easy to endure but even pleasant, for it carries freedom from care — without which nothing is pleasant.
Hardship (n.) is the tax of life, which you should never hope and never seek to escape; pay it willingly.
Hardship (n.) overcome is the greater good: it is more of an accomplishment to break one’s way through difficulties than to keep joy within bounds.
Hardship (n.) is never desirable; what is desirable is the virtue that enables us patiently to endure it.
Hardship (n.) is measured by softness: to the luxurious a simple life is a penalty, to the lazy work is punishment, to the slothful study is torture.