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adjective

Not easily roused to feeling, emotion, or action; composed, calm, self-possessed; having a sluggish, unemotional temperament.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

—Friedrich Nietzsche Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe (1980)

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