An idea from Guide for the Perplexed

Most of your troubles don’t come from nature or from other people. They come from your own excess. Wanting silver dishes leads to wanting gold ones, then sapphire, and that wanting never ends.

From Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides

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