An idea from Discourses and Enchiridion

A soldier who never feared an enemy weeps at night at the door of a woman who scorns him. A friend of Caesar loses sleep over Caesar. Neither is free, since “freedom is acquired not by the full possession of the things which are desired, but by removing the desire.”

From Discourses and Enchiridion by Epictetus

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