1006. Contentedness vs ambition

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Being always intent upon new objects of desire, we think, not of what we have, but of what we are striving to obtain. Those whose mind is fixed entirely upon what they hope to gain, regard with contempt all that is their own already.

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