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The essence of good and evil is in the will, not in what befalls a man.
Epictetus · Discourses · paraphrase
What it means today

Nothing that happens to you is, by itself, good or bad. The moral weight lives in your choice — in what you will do with what happened.

Try this todayTake an event you labeled "bad" today and ask: what would make this good or bad is only my next choice.
Today’s questionWhere am I looking for good and evil outside, when they live in my will?
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