If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
Meditations, Book 8, Section 47
c. 161-180 AD
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