Chapter V
Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things. When then we are impeded or disturbed or grieved, let us never blame others, but ourselves, that is, our opinions.
from The Enchiridion · tr. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1865)
Chapter V
Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things. When then we are impeded or disturbed or grieved, let us never blame others, but ourselves, that is, our opinions.
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