Seneca, Epistles 81.28

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TRANSLATOR: Long
CATEGORY: [[id:8D07F2BD-C53A-4551-A615-7C2FE5925A11][Desire]]
AUTHOR: Seneca
TEXT: Epistles

As long as we are seeking a benefit, there is nothing we value more highly; once we have obtained it, there is nothing we value less. What makes us orget the favors we have obtained? Our desire to obtain more: we don't think about what we have been granted already but only about our next request. We are drawn from what is right by wealth, honor, power, and everything else that is precious in our eyes, though cheap in actual worth.