HabitAttested · Epicurus
Frugal contentment
Nothing is enough for the one to whom enough is too little.
lived on bread, water and a little cheese on feast days: not out of privation, but because growing used to simple pleasures sets you free. Who needs little fears less to lose it, and finds in luxury an occasional joy instead of a due. To take up this habit is to make your desires easy to satisfy, and to taste what you have rather than chase what is missing.
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- Relation to desire · Reasoned selection
Source: Epicurus
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- The desire that destroys us — A desire we know to be harmful returns despite every decision against it: should we affirm it as part of ourselves, dismiss it as a stray impulse, or admit that we do not really govern our desires at all?