Sublime

For that is your business, to act the role that is assigned to you as well as you can; but it is another’s* part to select that role.

Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.

“For nothing outside my reasoned choice can hinder or harm it—my reasoned choice alone can do this to itself. If we would lean this way whenever we fail, and would blame only ourselves and remember that nothing but opinion is the cause of a troubled mind and uneasiness, then by God, I swear we would be making progress.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.19

what have they made you accountable for? Only for what lies within your power, the right use of your impressions. [35] Why do you charge yourself, then, with things for which you’re not accountable? You’re merely creating trouble for yourself.

“In short, you must remember this—that if you hold anything dear outside of your own reasoned choice, you will have destroyed your capacity for choice.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.4.23

la liberalità; il contenermi non soltanto dal compiere il male, ma perfino dal pensarlo;

“Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night—there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession, surrendering all else to God and Fortune.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.4.39

“Whenever you find yourself blaming providence, turn it around in your mind and you will see that what has happened is in keeping with reason.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.17.1