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2 kinds of appetites

 

2 kinds of appetites

The Practicing Stoic - Ward Farnsworth

Natural appetites such as hunger are finite and fully satisfied;
of course,        they can recur
but there is a limit to it
you feel rich at the end of it

On the other hand, an unnatural appetite
such as the wish for status
can never quite be satisfied
They have no limits
so you shall feel poor even as you attain it!

If there is no limit,
there is no denominator
there is no bottom
How long can you go on and on?
in chase of the Horizon

Even a beggar's bowl has a bottom
while a craving man is holding a bottomless bowl!
for how much ever it intakes, does not get filled!
does not satiate him
Seneca says: "There is no terminus to what is false"

Necessity has limits
Superfluity does not!
Where necessity ends, superfluity begins! Johnson- The Idler No. 30

Authors

Ward Farnsworth       

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