A Quotation From Spinoza Been doing a little Spinoza, because the man is shockingly Stoic in his theology (physics) and ethics - or at least that which I have discovered - despite disliking them.
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&gt; ... when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

From: Ethics, Part IV.