Epictetus, Discourses 3.3.18

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CATEGORY: [[id:A3E4FC21-752F-413F-8289-0F0BD8B81FD4][Judgement]]
AUTHOR: Epictetus
TEXT: Discourses

These vicious judgements must be rooted out, then; that is what we should concentrate our efforts on. For what is weeping and groaning? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement. What is civil strife, dissension, fault-finding, accusation, impiety, foolishness? All of these are judgements and nothing more, and judgements that are passed, moreover, about things that lie outside the sphere of choice, under the supposition that such things are good or bad. Let someone transfer these judgements to things that lie within the sphere of choice, and I guarantee that he'll preserve his peace of mind, regardles of what his circumstances may be.