An idea from Discourses and Enchiridion

When a boy falls, wrestling trainers tell him to get up and wrestle again until he is strong. Someone who has slid into bad habits is told the same. No one else can wreck you or mend you, “for from within comes ruin and from within comes help.”

From Discourses and Enchiridion by Epictetus

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