As an infant, you're unable to speak and so can't question things logically. You follow your instincts and learn by copying people around you. At first, they seem to spend their lives chasing after money, property, success, and popularity. By the time you learn to question these goals you're already living in the same way. What makes wealth good, though, is the use you make of it. 

The same applies to these other things. Acquiring the wisdom to use things well is therefore the most important goal in life, everything else is trivial by comparison. 

Donald 

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Donald Robertson is a Cognitive Behvavior Therapist and author of several books on Stoicism including “How to think Like a Roman Emperor.” 

 

 

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