Hamlet

It’s your view of things that upsets you

Echoes

Hamlet says “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”: the same place is a prison to him and not to the others. He names no source.

1. 45 BCE

   “The whole cause, then, is in opinion; and this observation applies not to this grief alone, but to every other disorder of the mind”

   Cicero, Tusculan Disputations. Earliest we can find, 1,644 years earlier.

2. 1600

   “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”