How many have had their ruin brought about by the possession of an estate, how many by the enjoyment of office! Every evil that can befall a man comes from himself.
Stoic philosopher
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter 104, Section 28
c. 65 AD
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