{"id":1900,"date":"2007-07-10T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/07\/pretty-good-advice\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:38","slug":"pretty-good-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2007\/07\/pretty-good-advice.html","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Good Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RpPU4X6s-VI\/AAAAAAAAAPg\/XiwVE8va0bc\/s1600-h\/epictetus.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/RpPU4X6s-VI\/AAAAAAAAAPg\/XiwVE8va0bc\/s400\/epictetus.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Considering the pope\u2019s statement, and how frequently any person is told people have not been kind about you, perhaps it would be good to turn to old Epictetus for counsel:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em>If someone has just told you that so-and-so is saying something bad about you, do not try to justify yourself in the least with regard to what has been reported to you; only answer: \u201cHe must not be fully informed about all the other things that could be said about me; otherwise he would not have limited himself to that.\u201d <\/em>(from <em>Virtue &amp; Happiness<\/em> translated into English by Sherab Chodzin Kohn)<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-9212466043424709061?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the pope\u2019s statement, and how frequently any person is told people have not been kind about you, perhaps it would be good to turn to old Epictetus for counsel: If someone has just told you that so-and-so is saying something bad about you, do not try to justify yourself in the least with regard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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