To crave impossibilities
“17. To crave impossibilities is lunacy; but it is impossible for the wicked to act otherwise.”
Οὐδὲν οὐδενὶ συμβαίνει ὃ οὐχὶ πέφυκε φέρειν. ἄλλῳ τὰ αὐτὰ συμβαίνει καὶ ἤτοι ἀγνοῶν ὅτι συμβέβηκεν, ἢ ἐπιδεικνύμενος μεγαλοφροσύνην, εὐσταθεῖ καὶ ἀκάκωτος μένει. δεινὸν οὖν ἄγνοιαν καὶ ἀρέσκειαν ἰσχυροτέρας εἶναι φρονήσεως.
Book 5
“It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.”
Marcus Aurelius (meditations)
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