You read Plato's dialogues as if they were
pretty poems. If you read them properly,
you wouldn't care about that, you would
attend more to this: 'Anytus and Meletus
can kill me, but they can't harm me.' 

                                   Epictetus 3.23

The wand of Hermes promises that whatever
you touch will turn to gold. For my part, I 
can say, 'Bring what challenge you please 
and I will turn it to good account: bring 
illness, death, poverty, slander: they will all
be converted to advantage by my wand of
Hermes'. 
                                       Epictetus 3.20