To want only what depends on you, is that not tailoring your desires to your powerlessness?

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The sage says he no longer desires anything he does not control. But how did he learn to stop wanting it? Often by persuading himself that it was not worth wanting.
It is the gesture of the fox in the fable, who declares the grapes too sour because he cannot reach them. saw in it the mainspring of a morality of resignation: lacking power, one makes a virtue of one's powerlessness.
If my serenity requires desiring only what I am sure to obtain, it grows only as what I care about shrinks. It is a real peace, but paid for by an impoverishment of life.

Therefore So the sage's freedom might be no conquest, but a renunciation in disguise: the calm of one who has ceased to want, for want of power.

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