The Stoic extirpation of emotions is in Irw in’s view clearly formulated in Seneca: It has been asked whether it is better to have moderate passions or no passions. We expel them, whereas the Peripatetics temper them. I do not see how any moderate condition of a disease could be healthy or useful. (Epistles 116.1) Irwin states that the view that the Stoics advocated the extirpation of emotions, as ordinarily understood, is strengthened by the doctrine of eupatheiai.