You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman statesman, philosopher, playwright [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]
Moral Letters to Lucilius [Epistulae morales ad Lucilium], letter 37, sec. 3 “On Allegiance to Virtue” [tr. Gummere (1918)]
