"When then shall I see Athens again and the Acropolis? Wretch, are you not content with what you see daily? Have you any thing better or greater to see than the sun, the moon, the stars, the whole earth, the sea? But if indeed you comprehend him who administers the Whole, and carry him about in yourself, do you still desire small stones, and a beautiful rock? When then you are going to leave the sun itself and the moon? What then will you do?"
- Epictetus, Discourses II.16
Lament for Things Distant
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