Wrong Desire is the Source of Suffering

From the Satires of Juvenal, Book IV, Satire X, as posted in Wikipedia:

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,
qui spatium uitae extremum inter munera ponat
naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,
nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores
Herculis aerumnas credat saeuosque labores
et uenere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe
tranquillae per uirtutem patet unica uitae.
(10.356-64)

I will try to translate if I can find some time. Might come in handy for the session I will be leading at RSA.

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