At the same time they are free from pretense; for they have stripped off all pretense or "make-up" whether in voice or in look.
Free too are they from all business cares, declining to do anything which conflicts with duty.
They will take wine, but not get drunk.
Nay more, they will not be liable to madness either; not but what there will at times occur to the good man strange impressions due to melancholy or delirium, ideas not determined by the principle of what is choiceworthy but contrary to nature.
Nor indeed will the wise man ever feel grief; seeing that grief is irrational contraction of the soul, as Apollodorus says in his Ethics.
—Diogenes Laërtius, 7.118
IMAGE: Jan Roos, Narcissus at the Spring (c. 1620)
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