75 - How to Turn People Down (or, "On Cringe")

The vice of "dysopia" brings down even the strongest.  Plutarch gives some advice on how to fortify ourselves against it. 

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Link to a translation of Plutarch's text : https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_vitioso_pudore*.html

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