Epictetus: The Dichotomy of Control
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Epictetus' dichotomy of control: opinion, aim, desire, and aversion are up to us; body, property, reputation, and office are not — virtue lives entirely in the first list.
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A pilot canceled by weather rages or re-plans. The weather was never hers; the response was never anything else. Stoic practice is keeping the lists straight.
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- Nothing yet depends on this.