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A MEDITATION

“ Passions are mistaken judgments.

— Chrysippus

Fragment, in Diogenes Laertius 7.111

On control

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A reflection

Anger, fear, and grief each involve an unexamined claim: that something is much worse than it is, or that you are much smaller than you are. Fix the judgment and the emotion often dissolves with it.

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