The more pleasures a man captures, the more masters he will have to serve - Seneca
The stoics believed that man spends his entire life attempting to obtain happiness, acquiring one desire after another in his quest, only to ultimately have each desire replaced by another, eventually ending up with a lot of material things, but no more happy than he was to begin with.
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