Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves people of much wisdom, to no one. (Epictetus)

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves people of much wisdom, to no one.

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