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Meditations · Book VIII · 28
Book VIII · 28

Pain is either an evil to the body—then let the body say what it thinks of it—or to the soul; but it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquillity, and not to think that pain is an evil. For every judgment and movement and desire and aversion is within, and no evil ascends so high.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations VIII.28. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.