Marcus Aurelius — "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing its…"

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.
Marcus Aurelius — Marcus Aurelius Ancient · Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 8, Section 47

Date: c. 161-180 AD

Life & Death

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