Epictetus, Handbook 1.5

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TRANSLATOR: Hard
CATEGORY: [[id:A3E4FC21-752F-413F-8289-0F0BD8B81FD4][Judgement]]
AUTHOR: Epictetus
TEXT: Handbook

Practise, then, from the very beginning to say to every disagreeable impression, "You're an impression and not at all what you appear to be." Then examine it and test it by these rules you posess, and first and foremost by this one, whether the impression relates to those things that are within our power, or those that aren't within our power; and if it relates to anything that isn't within our power, be ready to reply, "That's nothing to me."