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The exercise was called premeditation of evils, and the point is that anticipated misfortune arrives smaller than the version fear had been advertising.","This is one of the smaller topics on the site, and that is a fact about the corpus rather than an oversight. The Stoics rarely treat fear on its own; it turns up inside their discussions of death, poverty, exile and disgrace, because for them fear is always fear of some particular thing wrongly rated as an evil.\n\nSo if the passages here feel thin, the argument you want is probably next door - under death, adversity, or wealth and fame.","llm_tag",15,[13,29,44,59,67,78,86,94,102,110,121,129,137,147,155,163,171,179,187,195,203,211,222,230,238,246,257,265,273,281,289,297,305,313,321,329,337,348,356,364,372,380,388,397,404,411,417,424,433,440],{"sectionId":14,"sectionLabel":15,"score":16,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":18,"relevanceNote":19,"work":20,"author":23,"readingUrl":28},937,"9.21",5,"llm_1_5","The ceasing of action, impulse, judgement is a pause and a kind of death, not any evil.","Core theme: demonstrating that ceasing and change are not to be feared despite seeming like death.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},"The Meditations","meditations",{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},217,"Marcus Aurelius Antoninus","Marcus Aurelius","aurelius","/aurelius/meditations/9.21",{"sectionId":30,"sectionLabel":31,"score":16,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":32,"relevanceNote":33,"work":34,"author":38,"readingUrl":43},2359,"6.28","To escape from fear, however great it may be, can never be so pleasant as to live in sound unassailable safety.","The passage is centrally about fear of danger, the uncertainty of peril, and the peace that comes from freedom from fear.",{"id":35,"name":36,"urlSlug":37},195,"On Benefits","on-benefits",{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},208,"Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger","Seneca","seneca","/seneca/on-benefits/6.28",{"sectionId":45,"sectionLabel":46,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":48,"relevanceNote":49,"work":50,"author":54,"readingUrl":58},1101,"21",4,"Keep before your eyes day by day death and exile, and everything that seems terrible, but most of all death; and then you will never have any abject thought, nor will you yearn for anything beyond measure.","Addresses confronting what seems terrible and fearful (death, exile) through deliberate mental practice to overcome dread and anxious attachment.",{"id":51,"name":52,"urlSlug":53},1,"The Enchiridion","enchiridion",{"id":55,"name":56,"shortName":56,"urlSlug":57},218,"Epictetus","epictetus","/epictetus/enchiridion/21",{"sectionId":60,"sectionLabel":61,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":62,"relevanceNote":63,"work":64,"author":65,"readingUrl":66},934,"9.18","Penetrate within, into their governing selves, and you will see what critics you fear, and what poor critics they are of themselves.","Explicitly addresses the fear of critics and offers consolation by showing that the source of our fear—others' judgment—is itself flawed and should not be feared.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/9.18",{"sectionId":68,"sectionLabel":69,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":70,"relevanceNote":71,"work":72,"author":76,"readingUrl":77},2460,"2.27","There are some things which are unable to hurt us, and whose power is exclusively beneficial and salutary, as, for example, the immortal gods, who neither wish nor are able to do harm: for their temperament is naturally gentle and tranquil, and no more likely to wrong others than to wrong themselves.","Directly addresses fear of the gods and harmful forces, establishing that the immortal gods neither wish nor are able to harm us.",{"id":73,"name":74,"urlSlug":75},197,"On Anger","on-anger",{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-anger/2.27",{"sectionId":79,"sectionLabel":80,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":81,"relevanceNote":82,"work":83,"author":84,"readingUrl":85},794,"7.18","Is it change that a man fears?","The passage directly addresses and challenges fear of change, aiming to free the reader from this needless alarm about an inescapable reality.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/7.18",{"sectionId":87,"sectionLabel":88,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":89,"relevanceNote":90,"work":91,"author":92,"readingUrl":93},955,"9.39","Why then be troubled?","The passage directly addresses worry and needless alarm—'Why then be troubled?' dismisses anxiety rooted in false fears about oneself.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/9.39",{"sectionId":95,"sectionLabel":96,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":97,"relevanceNote":98,"work":99,"author":100,"readingUrl":101},784,"7.08","Let not the future trouble you; for you will come to it, if come you must, bearing with you the same reason which you are using now to meet the present.","Directly addresses worry about the future and freedom from needless alarm by applying present reason to what is feared",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/7.08",{"sectionId":103,"sectionLabel":104,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":105,"relevanceNote":106,"work":107,"author":108,"readingUrl":109},600,"2.11","But to leave the company of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist; for they would not involve you in ill.","Directly addresses fear of leaving life and dying, and argues there is nothing to fear in death if the gods exist and care for us.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/2.11",{"sectionId":111,"sectionLabel":112,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":113,"relevanceNote":114,"work":115,"author":119,"readingUrl":120},2589,"1.16","You have escaped from all accidents, jealousies, diseases: you have escaped from prison: the gods have not thought you worthy of ill-fortune, but have thought that fortune no longer deserved to have any power over you\": but when any one shrinks back in the hour of death and looks longingly at life, we must lay hands upon him.","The passage addresses fear in the face of death and the hour of dying, and praises those who overcome this fear with courage.",{"id":116,"name":117,"urlSlug":118},200,"On Peace of Mind","on-peace-of-mind",{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-peace-of-mind/1.16",{"sectionId":122,"sectionLabel":123,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":124,"relevanceNote":125,"work":126,"author":127,"readingUrl":128},1098,"18","When a raven croaks inauspiciously, let not the external impression carry you away, but straightway draw a distinction in your own mind, and say, \"None of these portents are for me, but either for my paltry body, or my paltry estate, or my paltry opinion, or my children, or my wife.","Addresses inauspicious portents and dread of bad omens, teaching freedom from needless alarm about what is feared.",{"id":51,"name":52,"urlSlug":53},{"id":55,"name":56,"shortName":56,"urlSlug":57},"/epictetus/enchiridion/18",{"sectionId":130,"sectionLabel":131,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":132,"relevanceNote":133,"work":134,"author":135,"readingUrl":136},1083,"3","With everything which entertains you, is useful, or of which you are fond, remember to say to yourself, beginning with the very least things, \"What is its nature?\" If you are fond of a jug, say, \"I am fond of a jug\"; for when it is broken you will not be disturbed.","The passage directly addresses anxiety about loss and disturbance by preparing the mind in advance to avoid needless alarm when things break or loved ones die.",{"id":51,"name":52,"urlSlug":53},{"id":55,"name":56,"shortName":56,"urlSlug":57},"/epictetus/enchiridion/3",{"sectionId":138,"sectionLabel":112,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":139,"relevanceNote":140,"work":141,"author":145,"readingUrl":146},2625,"You need not think, because sometimes they call for death, that their lives are long: their folly torments them with vague passions which lead them into the very things of which they are afraid: they often, therefore, wish for death because they live in fear.","The passage emphasizes how fear dominates these lives—they dread the future, wish for death because they live in fear, and lose sleep fearing the dawn.",{"id":142,"name":143,"urlSlug":144},202,"On the Shortness of Life","on-the-shortness-of-life",{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-the-shortness-of-life/1.16",{"sectionId":148,"sectionLabel":149,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":150,"relevanceNote":151,"work":152,"author":153,"readingUrl":154},1027,"11.22","The mountain mouse and the town mouse, and the fright and scurry of the latter.","The passage directly describes the town mouse's fright and scurrying, which exemplifies fear and anxiety.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/11.22",{"sectionId":156,"sectionLabel":157,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":158,"relevanceNote":159,"work":160,"author":161,"readingUrl":162},2586,"1.13","I will set sail unless anything happens to prevent me, I shall be praetor, if nothing hinders me, my financial operations will succeed, unless anything goes wrong with them.","Addresses fear of uncertain outcomes and the anxiety of unmet expectations through conditional language ('unless anything happens').",{"id":116,"name":117,"urlSlug":118},{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-peace-of-mind/1.13",{"sectionId":164,"sectionLabel":165,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":166,"relevanceNote":167,"work":168,"author":169,"readingUrl":170},811,"7.35","'Then such a man as that will consider even death not a thing to be dreaded, will he not?' 'Most assuredly.'","Explicitly addresses overcoming dread of death through wisdom and proper perspective, showing freedom from needless fear.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/7.35",{"sectionId":172,"sectionLabel":173,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":174,"relevanceNote":175,"work":176,"author":177,"readingUrl":178},1079,"12.35","For him whose sole good is what is in due season, who counts it all one to render according to right reason more acts or fewer, and to whom it is no matter whether he beholds the world a longer or a shorter time—for him even death has lost its terrors.","Directly addresses freedom from fear of death through proper understanding of what is truly good.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/12.35",{"sectionId":180,"sectionLabel":181,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":182,"relevanceNote":183,"work":184,"author":185,"readingUrl":186},677,"4.49","'Unlucky am I, because this has befallen me.' Nay rather: 'Lucky am I, because, though this befell me, I continue free from sorrow, neither crushed by the present, nor fearing what is to come.' For such an event might have befallen any man, but not every man would have continued in it free from sorrow.","Explicitly addresses freedom from fear of the future and refusing to be disturbed by what may come.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/4.49",{"sectionId":188,"sectionLabel":189,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":190,"relevanceNote":191,"work":192,"author":193,"readingUrl":194},606,"2.17","Now if there is no hurt to the elements themselves in their ceaseless changing each into other, why should a man apprehend anxiously the change and dissolution of them all?","Directly addresses why one should not anxiously fear change and dissolution, promoting freedom from needless alarm.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/2.17",{"sectionId":196,"sectionLabel":197,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":198,"relevanceNote":199,"work":200,"author":201,"readingUrl":202},793,"7.17","Depart, in God's name, the way you came; I have no need of you.","The speaker addresses a fearful or anxious phantom and firmly dismisses it, showing freedom from needless alarm and courage in facing what disturbs.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/7.17",{"sectionId":204,"sectionLabel":205,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":206,"relevanceNote":207,"work":208,"author":209,"readingUrl":210},1045,"12.01","If then, when you arrive at last at your final exit, resigning all else, you honour your governing self alone and the divine element within you, if what you dread is not that some day you will cease to live, but rather never to begin at all to live with Nature, you will be a man worthy of the Universe that gave you birth, and will cease to be a stranger in your own country, surprised by what is coming to pass every day, as at something you did not look to see, and absorbed in this thing or in that.","Addresses fear directly: what we should and should not dread, and freedom from needless alarm about death and the future.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/12.01",{"sectionId":212,"sectionLabel":213,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":214,"relevanceNote":215,"work":216,"author":220,"readingUrl":221},2924,"3.18","Why then are you still afraid of his decision?","The passage repeatedly addresses why we should not be afraid of external outcomes (judge's decision, threats, condemnation) that are outside our control.",{"id":217,"name":218,"urlSlug":219},209,"Discourses","discourses",{"id":55,"name":56,"shortName":56,"urlSlug":57},"/epictetus/discourses/3.18",{"sectionId":223,"sectionLabel":224,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":225,"relevanceNote":226,"work":227,"author":228,"readingUrl":229},1004,"11.03","How admirable is the soul which is ready and resolved, if it must this moment be released from the body, to be either extinguished or scattered or to persist.","The passage addresses courage in the face of death by cultivating readiness and resolve to overcome natural dread of mortality.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/11.03",{"sectionId":231,"sectionLabel":232,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":233,"relevanceNote":234,"work":235,"author":236,"readingUrl":237},727,"6.10","If then the former, why do I so much as desire to wear out my days in a world compounded by accident and in a confusion governed by chance?","The passage addresses anxiety and dread about living in a chaotic, accidental universe and finds courage in providence.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/6.10",{"sectionId":239,"sectionLabel":240,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":241,"relevanceNote":242,"work":243,"author":244,"readingUrl":245},987,"10.25","In the same way, also, he who gives way to sorrow or anger or fear, wishes that something had not been or were not now, or should not be heareafter, of what is appointed by that which ordains all things; and that is law, laying down for every man what falls to his lot.","Fear is explicitly identified as an emotion to which one should not yield, and yielding to it means wishing events were otherwise than ordained.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/10.25",{"sectionId":247,"sectionLabel":248,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":249,"relevanceNote":250,"work":251,"author":255,"readingUrl":256},2573,"XXVIII","This you do not understand, and you bear a countenance which does not befit your condition, like many men who sit in the circus or the theatre without having learned that their home is already in mourning: but I, looking forward from a lofty standpoint, can see what storms are either threatening you, and will burst in torrents upon you somewhat later, or are close upon you and on the point of sweeping away all that you possess.","the passage is centrally about storms and dread of what is coming; it warns of threatened calamity and emotional turmoil",{"id":252,"name":253,"urlSlug":254},199,"On the Happy Life","on-the-happy-life",{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-the-happy-life/XXVIII",{"sectionId":258,"sectionLabel":259,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":260,"relevanceNote":261,"work":262,"author":263,"readingUrl":264},997,"10.34","For one bitten by true doctrines even the briefest and most familiar saying is reminder enough to dispel sorrow and fear, for instance: 'leaves, the wind scatters some on the face of the ground; like unto them are the children of men.' Yes, 'leaves' too are your children, and 'leaves' those whose voices shout and applaud convincingly or on the contrary curse you or blame and rail beneath their breath; 'leaves' too even those who will receive and hand on your fame hereafter.","Explicitly addresses dispelling fear and sorrow through philosophical reminders about life's transience.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/10.34",{"sectionId":266,"sectionLabel":267,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":268,"relevanceNote":269,"work":270,"author":271,"readingUrl":272},678,"4.50","An unscientific but none the less a helpful support to disdain of death is to review those who have clung tenaciously to life.","The passage explicitly addresses how to overcome fear and disdain of death through philosophical reflection and reframing.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/4.50",{"sectionId":274,"sectionLabel":275,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":276,"relevanceNote":277,"work":278,"author":279,"readingUrl":280},944,"9.28","Now either the mind of the Whole has an impulse to each individual; and if that is so, welcome what it initiates; or else it had an impulse once for all and what follows is consequential upon that; and why are you anxious?","Directly addresses anxiety ('why are you anxious?') and counsels freedom from it through understanding divine order or cosmic necessity.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/9.28",{"sectionId":282,"sectionLabel":283,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":284,"relevanceNote":285,"work":286,"author":287,"readingUrl":288},991,"10.29","At the time of each separate act, stop and ask yourself whether death is to be feared because you are deprived of this.","Directly addresses fear of death and asks how to evaluate whether it is justified.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/10.29",{"sectionId":290,"sectionLabel":291,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":292,"relevanceNote":293,"work":294,"author":295,"readingUrl":296},829,"7.53","Where work can be accomplished according to the reason which is common to gods and men, there is nothing to fear; for where it is possible to obtain benefit by action which moves on an easy path and according to your constitution, there is no injury to suspect.","Directly addresses fear and how to eliminate it through right action according to reason and constitution.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/7.53",{"sectionId":298,"sectionLabel":299,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":300,"relevanceNote":301,"work":302,"author":303,"readingUrl":304},984,"10.22","There is nothing beside these three: therefore be of good courage.","The exhortation to 'be of good courage' directly addresses overcoming fear and anxiety about the three inevitable outcomes.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/10.22",{"sectionId":306,"sectionLabel":307,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":308,"relevanceNote":309,"work":310,"author":311,"readingUrl":312},2566,"XXI","Does he consider banishment to be an empty name, and say, \"What evil is there in changing one country for another?\" and yet, if permitted, does he not grow old in his native land? does he declare that there is no difference between a longer and a shorter time, and yet, if he be not prevented, lengthen out his life and flourish in a green old age?\" His answer is, that these things ought to be despised, not that he should not possess them, but that he should not possess them with fear and trembling: he does not drive them away from him, but when they leave him he follows after them unconcernedly.","The passage explicitly concerns freedom from fear and trembling about externals—not being anxious or dreadful about loss of wealth, health, home, or life.",{"id":252,"name":253,"urlSlug":254},{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-the-happy-life/XXI",{"sectionId":314,"sectionLabel":315,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":316,"relevanceNote":317,"work":318,"author":319,"readingUrl":320},821,"7.45","'For really and truly, men of Athens, the matter stands like this: wherever a man takes post, believing it to be the best, or is posted by his captain, there he ought, as I think, to remain and abide the risk, taking into account nothing, whether death or anything else, in comparison with dishonour.'","Explicitly commands not taking death or other risks into account — overcoming fear in the face of danger is central to the passage.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/7.45",{"sectionId":322,"sectionLabel":323,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":324,"relevanceNote":325,"work":326,"author":327,"readingUrl":328},956,"9.40","That man prays: 'How may I know that woman'; do you pray: 'How may I not desire to know her.' Another prays: 'How may I get rid of him'; do you pray: 'How may I not want to be rid of him.' Another: 'How may I not lose my little child'; do you pray: 'How may I not be afraid to lose him.' Turn your prayers round in this way generally and see what is the result.","Explicitly instructs how to pray for freedom from fear through concrete examples like fear of losing a child.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/9.40",{"sectionId":330,"sectionLabel":331,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":332,"relevanceNote":333,"work":334,"author":335,"readingUrl":336},909,"8.58","He who fears death fears either total loss of consciousness or a change of consciousness.","Explicitly about fear of death and analyzes its origins and irrationality.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/8.58",{"sectionId":338,"sectionLabel":339,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":340,"relevanceNote":341,"work":342,"author":346,"readingUrl":347},2598,"1.08","As he presses forward and makes his way towards the life that is sublime, well-ordered, without fear, proceeding in a regular and harmonious course, tranquil, beneficent, made for the good of mankind useful both to itself and to others, he will neither long nor weep for anything that is grovelling.","The passage describes a life 'without fear' and explicitly contrasts the wise man's freedom from dread with terror and anxiety.",{"id":343,"name":344,"urlSlug":345},201,"On the Firmness of a Wise Man","on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man",{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-the-firmness-of-a-wise-man/1.08",{"sectionId":349,"sectionLabel":350,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":351,"relevanceNote":352,"work":353,"author":354,"readingUrl":355},2550,"V","Since I have begun to make my definitions without a too strict adherence to the letter, a man may be called \"happy\" who, thanks to reason, has ceased either to hope or to fear: but rocks also feel neither fear nor sadness, nor do cattle, yet no one would call those things happy which cannot comprehend what happiness is.","Opens with defining a happy person as one who has ceased to hope or fear, making freedom from fear a central concern.",{"id":252,"name":253,"urlSlug":254},{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-the-happy-life/V",{"sectionId":357,"sectionLabel":358,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":359,"relevanceNote":360,"work":361,"author":362,"readingUrl":363},1112,"32","Do not, therefore, bring to the diviner desire or aversion, and do not approach him with trembling, but having first made up your mind that every issue is indifferent and nothing to you, but that, whatever it may be, it will be possible for you to turn it to good use, and that no one will prevent this.","Central theme: approaching divination without trembling or dread; freedom from needless alarm about fate.",{"id":51,"name":52,"urlSlug":53},{"id":55,"name":56,"shortName":56,"urlSlug":57},"/epictetus/enchiridion/32",{"sectionId":365,"sectionLabel":366,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":367,"relevanceNote":368,"work":369,"author":370,"readingUrl":371},601,"2.12","But if a man fears Nature's handiwork he is a mere child; and yet death is not merely Nature's handiwork, but also her well-being.","Directly addresses fear of death and its irrationality, arguing against needless dread.",{"id":4,"name":21,"urlSlug":22},{"id":24,"name":25,"shortName":26,"urlSlug":27},"/aurelius/meditations/2.12",{"sectionId":373,"sectionLabel":374,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":375,"relevanceNote":376,"work":377,"author":378,"readingUrl":379},2285,"4.19","No sane man fears the gods; for it is madness to fear what is beneficial, and no man loves those whom he fears.","Explicitly argues that no sane man should fear the gods because they are beneficial, directly addressing freedom from needless fear.",{"id":35,"name":36,"urlSlug":37},{"id":39,"name":40,"shortName":41,"urlSlug":42},"/seneca/on-benefits/4.19",{"sectionId":381,"sectionLabel":382,"score":47,"scoreScale":17,"pullQuote":383,"relevanceNote":384,"work":385,"author":386,"readingUrl":387},2198,"2.05","Nothing is more bitter than long uncertainty; 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