If you pin your hopes on things outside your control, taking upon yourself things which rightfully belong to others, you are liable to stumble, fall, suffer, and blame both gods and men.
— Epictetus Ancient

Stoic philosopher, former slave

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c. 1st-2nd Century AD

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