For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
Discourses and Selected Writings
c. 1st-2nd Century AD
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