What makes an expensive thing expensive — the thing itself, or the imagination we have layered on top of it?
This fine dish is only a dead fish; this purple robe is only wool dyed with a shellfish's blood.
First asked by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus's method of stripping the wrapping off precious things became a representative technique of Stoic cognitive practice, definitional analysis.
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