Epictetus · Discourses 8.5
What punishment for those who refuse to accept? To remain what they are. Is someone dissatisfied with solitude? Let him remain alone. With his parents? Then a bad son. With his children? A bad father.
What this means
The punishment for refusing reality, Epictetus says, is simply to keep being the person who refuses it. The discontented loner stays alone; the resentful son stays a bad son. Character is its own consequence, paid out quietly over a life.
On judgment, fate.