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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: let all your reasonings, your exercises, your reading tend. Then
shall you know that thus alone are men set free.
CXXXVI
He is free who lives as he wishes to live; to whom none can
do violence, none hinder or compel; whose impulses are unimpeded,
whose desires are attain their purpose, who falls not into what
he would avoid. Whe then would live in error?--None. Who would
live deceived and prone to fall, unjust, intemperate, in abject
whining at his lot?--None. Then doth no wicked man live as he
would, and therefore neither is he free.
CXXXVII
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