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Book IX · 26

Thou hast endured infinite troubles through not being contented with thy ruling faculty when it does the things which it is constituted by nature to do. But enough [of this].

By not being content with thy ruling Reason doing the work for which it was constituted, thou hast borne unnumbered ills. Nay, 'tis enough!

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IX.26. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.