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Apathy is, for the Stoics, the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.

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Apathy is the condition of a person who has sat on the fence for so long that the iron has entered into his soul.

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: First, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.