Epictetus - Short Works - ¶2 aiming for great things and power and prestige
From Short Works:
│ But if you wish for these things also (such great things), and power (office)
│ and wealth, perhaps you will not gain even these very things (power and
│ wealth) because you aim also at those former things (such great things):
│ certainly you will fail in those things through which alone happiness and
│ freedom are secured.
Aiming for stuff like power and prestige while also pursuing things that are controllable can result in forfeiture of both.
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