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Quotation from Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion by Epictetus
“You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower.”
Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Discourses, "Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power" (I.1), trans. George Long (1877)
Epictetus imagines a tyrant threatening chains, prison and beheading, and answers each threat in turn.
Citation: "You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower." — Epictetus, Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Discourses, "Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power" (I.1), trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-and-encheiridion-q6)
Portrait: Epictetus from L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Opera, 1605, title page detail, Theodoor Galle, Public domain.
