The body is to every one the proper measure of its
possessions, as the foot is of the shoe. If, therefore,
you stop at this, you will keep the measure; but if
you move beyond it, you must necessarily be carried
forward, as down a precipice; as in the case of a
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shoe, if you go beyond its fitness to the foot, it comes
first to be gilded, then purple, and then studded with
jewels. For to that which once exceeds the fit
measure there is no bound.
The Works of Epictetus: His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments. Epictetus. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. translator. New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1890.
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