2025-10-16
       
 (TXT) Encheiridion 16
       
          What weighs down a man is not what has happened, 
          but his judgment about it.
          Do not hesitate, however, to sympathize with him verbally.
       
       I wonder if a Stoic could not sympathize with a man in truth, and
       not just verbally.  Isn't it true that the man suffers, even if
       the suffering is derived from his judgment and not the external
       occurance?  We can sympathize with him that these events weigh
       upon him even if we know that the reason they do so is his
       judgements about them.
       
       I wonder how well this project will go, and whether I will have
       the perseverence to continue it (as well as whether I ought to).
       We will see.
       
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