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The Enchiridion

           2. Remember that following desire promises the attainment of

           that of which you are desirous; and aversion promises the

           avoiding that to which you are averse. However, he who fails

           to obtain the object of his desire is disappointed, and he who

           incurs the object of his aversion wretched. If, then, you

           confine your aversion to those objects only which are contrary

           to the natural use of your faculties, which you have in your

           own control, you will never incur anything to which you are

           averse. But if you are averse to sickness, or death, or

           poverty, you will be wretched. Remove aversion, then, from all

           things that are not in our control, and transfer it to things

           contrary to the nature of what is in our control. But, for the

           present, totally suppress desire: for, if you desire any of

           the things which are not in your own control, you must

           necessarily be disappointed; and of those which are, and which

           it would be laudable to desire, nothing is yet in your

           possession. Use only the appropriate actions of pursuit and

           avoidance; and even these lightly, and with gentleness and

           reservation.