"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."-SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 123.3
("어떤 사람도 그가 원하는 모든 것을 가질 수 있는 힘을 지니지 못하지만, 자신이 가지지 못한 것을 원하지 않는 것은 그의 힘 안에 있으며, 자신이 가지고 있는 것을 기꺼이 잘 활용할 수 있습니다." - 세네카, 도덕 서신, 123.3)
Is there a person so rich that there is literally nothing they can't afford? Surely there isn't. Even the richest people regularly fail in their attempts to buy elections, to purchase respect, class, love, and any number of other things that are not for sale.
If obscene wealth will never get you everything you want, is that the end of it? Or is there another way to solve for that equation? To the Stoics, there is: by changing what it is that you want. By changing how you think, you'll manage to get it. John D. Rockefeller, who was as rich ...
