Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember they are only doing or saying what they think is right. - Epictetus

I have learned to see that whatever comes about is nothing to me if it lies beyond the sphere of choice.

Stoicism doesn’t mean repressing emotion and shunning pleasure, I learned, but, in essence, focusing on what is within our power and letting go of everything we can’t control.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. (5) [tr. George Long (1888)].