No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to… — Seneca
No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.
In the original Latin
Quidquid vult habere nemo potest, illud potest, nolle quod non habet, rebus oblatis hilaris uti.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.
