For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.
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Variant: For death or pain is not formidable, but the fear of pain or death. ([http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.2.two.html Book II, ch. 1]) | Book II, ch. 1, § 13.
