| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8936 |
| AUTHOR: | Epictetus (A.D. c. 50c. 138) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Discourses. Chap xi. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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