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Quotation from Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion by Epictetus
“Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things”
Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Encheiridion, ch. V, trans. George Long (1877)
The handbook's best-known maxim, supported by the example of Socrates, to whom death did not seem terrible.
Citation: "Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things" — Epictetus, Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Encheiridion, ch. V, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-and-encheiridion-q2)
Portrait: Epictetus from L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera, 1605, title page detail, Theodoor Galle, Public domain.
