The Stoics Are Not Made From Stone

Olas gellius asked a stoic if he was unaffected by stress. He explained that the founders of stoicism zeno and chrysipus had taught this distinction between involuntary and voluntary aspects of emotion. Even like the most hardened salors, in the middle of a storm like that, where it looks like you might die, of course i turn pale and my hands shake, just like everyone else. Those are propethei ther are involuntary, natural emotional reactions. And we should accept those as natural and inevitablethat even an animal would experience those emotions in a stressful situationlike that. But what stoic doesn't do is add to them by dwelling on them, perpetuating them