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A MEDITATION

“ Wealth is able to buy the pleasures of eating, drinking and other sensual delights, yet can never afford a cheerful disposition or freedom from sorrow.

— Musonius Rufus

Lectures 18

On freedom

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A reflection

Money can buy the dinner but not the appetite, the bed but not the sleep, the palace but not the peace. Any happiness that money could fully buy would already be on sale somewhere — and it isn't.

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