Marcus Aurelius: Endure and Renounce

What Marcus and Epictetus say about this famous Stoic slogan

We’re told by the Roman author and grammarian Aulus Gellius, a contemporary of Marcus Aurelius, that the Stoic Epictetus was known for the slogan “endure and renounce”, which has also been translated as “bear and forbear”.

[Epictetus] used to say that there were two faults which were by far the worst and most disgusting of all, lack of endurance and lack…