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THE
DISCOURSES
OF
EPICTETUS.
BOOK IV.
CHAPTER I.
Of Freedom.
§. 1.e is free, who lives as he likes; who is not subject either to Compulsion, to Restraint, or to Violence whose Pursuits are unhindered, his Desires successful, his Aversions unincurred. Who then would wish to lead a wrong Course of Life? "No one." Who would live deceived, prone to mistake, unjust, dissolute, discontented, dejected? "No one." No wicked Man then lives as he likes; therefore neither is he free. And who would live in Sorrow,
Fear,