In A Word, Neither Death, Nor Exile, Nor Pain, Nor Anything Of This
Kind Is The Real Cause Of Our Doing Or Not Doing Any Action, But Our
Inward Opinions And Principles.
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this
kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our
inward opinions and principles.
-- Epictetus (c. 60 AD)
-- Discourses, Book i, Chap xi