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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: struggle in which your Master and Teacher, were he worthy of the
name, should be engaged. You would come to me and say:
"Epictetus, we can no longer endure being chained to this
wretched body, giving food and drink and rest and purification:
aye, and for its sake forced to be subservient to this man and
that. Are these not things indifferent and nothing to us? Is it
not true that death is no evil? Are we not in a manner kinsmen of
the Gods, and have we not come from them? Let us depart thither,
whence we came: let us be freed from these chains that confine
and press us down. Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals:
and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a
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