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Quotation from The Discourses by Epictetus
“You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower”
The Discourses, Book I, Ch. 1, trans. George Long (1877)
An imagined exchange with a tyrant's agent; the will is the one thing beyond any external power.
Citation: "You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower" — Epictetus, The Discourses, Book I, Ch. 1, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-q2)
