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It’s your view of things that upsets you
Cites Epictetus, per a summary
Wikipedia has Ellis stating that our thinking about events, not the events, affects us, crediting the Stoic philosophers, quoting the Enchiridion of Epictetus and noting Shakespeare as similar.
- 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, 2,006 years earlier.
- 1962
“was originally discovered and stated by the ancient Stoic philosophers.”
Secondhand, from Wikipedia. Albert Ellis, Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy (1962).
This book is still in copyright, so we read an account of it, not the book.
Sources
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/