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THE

DISCOURSES

OF

EPICTETUS.


BOOK IV.


CHAPTER I.

Of Freedom.

§. 1.He 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,