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"Fragments of Epictetus from Stobaeus, Antonius, and Maximus [from the Works of Epictetus]"
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Date: 1758
"Fortune is an evil Chain to the Body; and Vice, to the Soul. For he whose Body is unbound, and whose Soul is chained, is a Slave. On the contrary, he whose Body is chained, and his Soul unbound, is free."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)
Date: 1758
"The Chain of the Body, Nature unbinds by Death; and Vice, by Money: the Chain of the Soul, Virtue unbinds, by Learning, and Experience, and philosophic Exercise."
preview | full record— Carter, Elizabeth (1717-1806)