If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?
If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.
That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.