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Do not blame fortune for what you can bear; blame only the judgment that says you cannot.

Epictetus · Discourses · paraphrase

What it means today

Fortune does what it does; it is not a moral agent. The suffering comes from the judgment that the thing is unbearable. Change the judgment, and the blame dissolves.

Try this todayCatch one moment today where you blame circumstances, and find the judgment underneath.

Today’s questionAm I blaming fortune, when the real weight is my own judgment?

#fortune #judgment #blame

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