The inability to bear or forbear

There are two faults far graver and fouler than any others--inability to bear, and inability to forbear, when we neither patiently bear the blows that must be borne, nor abstain from the things and the pleasures we ought to abstain from. Epictetus. The Golden Sayings. Section 2. Number 183.
Closeup of Trajan's Column depicting labor and prisoners during the Dacian Wars 113 CE photographed in Rome, Italy.

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