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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus
Life, Philosophical, Soul
Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

Epictetus
Sweet, Soul, Rich

We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.

Epictetus
Soul, Use, Dread
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.17

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Epictetus
Soul, Bait, Hook
Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Epictetus
Truth, Soul, Deprived
Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.79

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

Epictetus
Soul, Judgment, Purification
"The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings".

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Epictetus
Evil, Soul, Vices
Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.341

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Epictetus
Mean, House, Soul
Epictetus (1877). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”, p.422

If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.

Epictetus
Prayer, Soul, Body
Epictetus (2015). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, p.82, Booklassic

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

Epictetus
Sweet, Soul, Rich
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.190, Enhanced Media Publishing

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

Epictetus
Eye, Soul, Crow
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Epictetus
Sweet, Soul, Rich
Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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