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What does it mean?
Do not judge others in another court until you have been judged by justice yourself.
In plain terms
Don’t condemn others before facing your own judgment.
What can you take from it?
Reflect on your own accountability before criticizing.

Where it applies

  • legal disputes
  • workplace reviews
  • personal conflicts

Putting it to work

  • self-assessment
  • seek impartial feedback

Questions to consider

  • What biases affect your judgments of others?
  • How can you ensure fairness in your assessments?

Another view

Sometimes external judgments are necessary for societal order.

More from Epictetus

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  3. Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

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