What is the punishment of those who do not accept? It is to be what they are.
Is any person dissatisfied with being alone? Let him be alone. Is a man dissatisfied with his parents? Let him be a bad son, and lament. Is he dissatisfied with his children? Let him be a bad father.
"Cast him into prison." What prison? Where he is already, for he is there against his will; and where a man is against his will, there he is in prison.
—Epictetus, Discourses, I.12, translated by George Long.
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