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<blockquote><div class="quotetitle">Quote from <a class="profile-link highlight-default" href="https://stoicplanet.com/user/7">RogerM</a> on February 5, 2025, 9:07 am</div><blockquote>
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A Modern English adaptation would be :
<blockquote>Illness may affect your body, but it doesn’t have to affect your will unless you let it. A lame leg can limit movement, but it doesn’t limit your choice. Remind yourself of this for everything that happens: it might be a problem for something else, but it doesn’t have to be a problem for you.</blockquote>
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Might be better meaning wise if the last part is translated to:</blockquote>
Remind yourself with every obstacle you encounter, and you will find that everything that happens might be an obstacle to something, but never to you.

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It does sound better to me. Great Idea by the way</blockquote><br>

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