For the Stoics, as for Heraclitus, a key ingredient in the recipe for happiness was learning to live with the inevitable. As a later, Roman Stoic put it: ‘Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it does happen, and your life will be serene.’ Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, loc. 5169. Kindle Edition