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Discourses, "How We Should Struggle Against Appearances" (§3)

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In this manner certainly, as philosophers say, also diseases of the mind grow up. For when you have once desired money, if reason be applied to lead to a perception of the evil, the desire is stopped, and the ruling faculty of our mind is restored to the original authority.
Epictetus·Discourses, "How We Should Struggle Against Appearances" (§3)·trans. Long
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