You are a little soul carrying a dead body, as Epictetus said. 94

He (Epictetus) said that he had discovered an art in giving assent; and in the topic (matter) of the movements he had discovered that we must observe attention, that the movements be subject to exception, ( μεφ’ ὑπεξαιρέσεως ), that they be social, that they be according to the worth of each thing; and that we ought to abstain entirely from desire, and to employ aversion ( ἐκκλίσει ) to none of the things which are not in our power. 95

About no common thing, he said, the contest (dispute) is, but about being mad or not. 96