227. Tackle illness with virtue

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227. Tackle illness with virtue

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Illness is not something to look forward to, as Stoics are not mad. But it is a fact of life, and so it becomes a question of how we deal with it: by kicking and screming, or as a test of our virtue of temperance?

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227. Tackle illness with virtue

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