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Book VI · 57

To the jaundiced honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten by mad dogs water causes fear; and to little children the ball is a fine thing. Why then am I angry? Dost thou think that a false opinion has less power than the bile in the jaundiced or the poison in him who is bitten by a mad dog?

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VI.57. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.