A passage from Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.123
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The wise man will be without passion. He will not grieve, because he knows that nothing is truly evil but vice. He will not fear, because he knows that nothing is to be feared but vice.
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