The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, 94

(idea) by themusic Tue May 30 2000 at 19:37:48
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To you, all you have seems small: to me, all I have seems great.

Your desire is insatiable, mine is satisfied. See children thrusting their hands into a narrow-necked jar, and striving to pull out the nuts and figs it contains: if they fill the hand, they cannot pull it out again, and then they fall to tears.

"Let go a few of them, and then you can draw out the rest!"

You, too, let your desire go! covet not many things, and you will obtain.

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