A passage from Epictetus

Epictetus, Enchiridion 6

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own. If a horse should be prideful and say, 'I am handsome,' it would be supportable. But when you are prideful, and say, 'I have a handsome horse,' know that you are proud of what is, in fact, only the good of the horse.
Epictetus·Enchiridion·6·trans. Thomas Higginson
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