The Fundamental Rule in Stoicism

…and the problem with the "Dichotomy of Control"

Diego Velázquez, “The Jester Don Diego de Acedo”, 1645 (Detail) (Public Domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons). “Don” Diego de Acedo was practically a slave and used as an object of fun in the Spanish Royal Court. This is all owing to his physical “deformity” of dwarfism. But Velázquez painted every human being with a supreme dignity that all human beings d…