A passage from Seneca
Seneca, Letters to Lucilius Letter 17
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As soon as some men become impatient of poverty, they lay hold on riches, and then find themselves in more embarrassment than ever.
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Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Everything you're trying to reach — by taking the long way round — you could have right now, this moment. If you'd only stop thwarting your own attempts.