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ταράσσει τοὺς ἀνθρώπους οὐ τὰ πράγματα, ἀλλὰ τὰ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων δόγματα· οἷον ὁ θάνατος οὐδὲν δεινόν, ἐπεὶ καὶ Σωκράτει ἂν ἐδόκει δεινόν, ἀλλὰ τὸ δόγμα τὸ περὶ τοῦ θανάτου, ὅτι δεινόν, ἐκεῖνο τὸ δεινόν ἐστιν. ὅταν…

tarassei tous anthrōpous ou ta pragmata, alla ta peri tōn pragmatōn dogmata; hoion ho thanatos ouden deinon, epei kai Sōkratei an edokei deinon, alla to dogma to peri tou thanatou, hoti deinon, ekeino to deinon estin. hotan oun empodizōmetha ē tarassōmetha ē…

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It is not things that disturb people, but their judgments about things. For example, death is nothing terrible — if it were, Socrates would have thought it terrible — but the judgment that death is terrible: that is what is terrible. So whenever we are obstructed, disturbed, or grieved, let us never blame another person, but ourselves — that is, our own judgments. It is the mark of an uninstructed person to blame others for their own troubles; of a person beginning instruction, to blame themselves; of a fully instructed person, to blame neither others nor themselves.