Epictetus, Discourses 4.1.174

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CATEGORY: [[id:8D07F2BD-C53A-4551-A615-7C2FE5925A11][Desire]]
AUTHOR: Epictetus
TEXT: Discourses

For you'll discover by experience that it is in fact true, and that the things that are highly regarded and eagerly pursued are of no value to those who acquire them, while those who have not yet acquired them fancy that, once they do, they'll be in posession of all that is good; but when they have them, there is the same scorching heat as before, the same fierce agitation, the same sense of surfeit, the same desire for what one doesn't have. For freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the supression of them.