Why are we still lazy, indifferent and dull? Why do we look for excuses to avoid training and exercising our powers of reason? "Look, if I err in such matters I haven't killed my father, have I?" No, fool – for there was no father there for you to kill! What did you do instead? You made the only mistake you had the opportunity to make.
Epictetus
Discourses I, 7.30