“It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.”
Hays translation
VII, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me not.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
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