156. Everyone who craves externals is a slave to them

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Seneca says that if we are going after the satisfaction of lust, greed, ambition, and so forth, we make ourselves slaves to fortune. Not so if we regard what we have as loans from the universe, which the universe can take back at any moment, by any means.

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