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Question: What does the Greek sentence in the beginning of the book Tristram Shandy mean!?
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"We are tormented with the opinions we have of things, and not by things themselves!." - Epictetus!. My edition also offers another translation, which reads, "Not practicalities trouble human beings, but dogmas concerning them!."Www@QuestionHome@Com