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2 passages · 1 tradition
Stoic
PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Enchiridion IThere are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power. Within our power are opinion, aim, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever affairs are our…PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Enchiridion VMen are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. Thus death is nothing terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion…