416. A starving man despises nothing

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

We take a lot of things for granted, when life is going well for us. But — fools that we are — we really appreciate what we had only once we’ve lost it. That's why the Stoics devised a series of exercises in mild self-deprivation.

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