Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. - Epictetus

If someone is the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren't you ashamed of that?

[I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.

Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.