That is not really a Stoic statement, not for a so called stoic thinker, that is more Epicurian or Lutheran Christian.
If unwelcome trouble has your name on it, there is no dodging it.
Personally if ind it encouraging when a person doesn't fit so neatly into a category box in which they have been slotted into. It generally causes some people to think rather than make assumptions.
I think in most cases most historical persons don't actually fit neatly into categorical boxes, and shouldn't be filed and categorized definitively and finality.