Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The sentiment aligns with a common classical moral theme: true happiness comes from mastering one’s inner life rather than from changing external circumstances. “Chains which hurt the mind” suggests self-imposed bondage—anxieties, obsessive rumination, and fear—treated as restraints as real as physical fetters. The counsel to “give up worrying once and for all” frames tranquility as a deliberate act of liberation, akin to Stoic and Epicurean ideals of ataraxia (freedom from disturbance). Even if attributed to Ovid, the thought reads less like romantic or mythic narrative and more like a generalized ethical maxim about mental freedom as the basis of well-being.