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If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Epictetus
Men, Thinking, Blame

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

Epictetus
Men, Ideas, Blame

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

Epictetus
Self, Blame, Ill
Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Epictetus
Men, Blame, Instruction
Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.3, Courier Corporation

When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

Epictetus
Principles, Faults, Blame

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

Epictetus
Progress, Blame, Remember
Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”

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