You Can't Want Both

Enchiridion by Epictetus, Chapter 13:

For be assured, it is not easy at once to keep your will in harmony with nature and to secure externals; but while you are absorbed in the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines "external" in the context of Epictetus's philosophy as:

‘external’; any of those things that fall outside the preserve of one’s prohairesis, including health, wealth, sickness, life, death, pain – what Epictetus calls aprohaireta, which are not in our power, the ‘indifferent‘ things.

The Epictetus quote, and particularly the last sentence, reminded me of a passage in The Fountainhead:

Keating wants the "simple and pleasant" externals of the world and builds his life around that. Roark wants to achieve his own goals and values according to his own standards. These are incompatible goals.

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