STOIC COSMOGONY

The Stoics defined the main emotions as grief, fear, desire and pleasure.  They regarded them as being essentially errors of judgement, just as they regarded the virtues as consisting of correct knowledge.  Avarice, for example, is the irrational misjudgement that money is a good in itself.

"The philosopher Diogenes of Babylon summed up the essence of Stoicism when he said that the telos of human life is to act rationally in choosing those things which are in accordance with Nature