Epictetus, Golden Sayings 94

Whether you wish it or not, you are poorer than I! 

"What then do I lack?" 

What you have not: Constancy of mind, such as Nature would have it be. Tranquillity. 

Patron or no patron, what do I care? But you do care. I am richer than you. I am not racked with anxiety as to what Caesar may think of me; I flatter none on that account. 

This is what I have, instead of vessels of gold and silver! Your vessels may be of gold, but your reason, your principles, your accepted views, your inclinations, your desires are of earthenware.