What would Marcus Aurelius say about money stress?

Poverty is feared less for hunger than for humiliation. You imagine the gaze of others, the narrowing of choice, the blow to your standing. Yet coin has never made a soul steady; it only reveals whether the soul was steady before. If your affairs are strained, do not add disgrace by panic. Look directly at the numbers, the debts, the limits. A thing becomes more tyrannical when you refuse to name it. Then distinguish what is necessary from what flatters vanity. Bread, shelter, honest dealing, clear effort: hold to these. Much of what seemed urgent was only habit dressed as need. If more labor is required, do it without self-pity. If less spending is required, accept it without shame. Fortune may tighten her hand, but she cannot forbid courage, restraint, or truth. The purse may be light while the character remains weighty.

— Marcus Aurelius