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 You take things you don't control and define them as "good" or "bad". And so of course when the "bad" things happen, or the "good" ones don't, you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible – or those you decide to make responsible. much of our bad behavior stems from trying to apply those criteria. If we limited "good" or "bad" to our own actions, we'd have no call to challenge God, or to treat other people as enemies.

– Marcus Aurelius