An idea from Discourses and Enchiridion

On the street you pass a man grieving his son, or a governor in his robes, and you ask one thing: is this up to me? If not, set it aside. A son has died and nothing more happened; that it went badly “every man adds from his own opinion.”

From Discourses and Enchiridion by Epictetus

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