If you are pained by any external thing, it is not the thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.
Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor
Meditations, Book 8, Section 47 (alternative translation)
c. 161-180 AD
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