Tao Stoic 11

Man, at birth, gets a extra mental freedom over the pure animal capacities. What now, will he do with it, as soon as he grows up, and learns to understand it? Indeed, he gives up this freedom as soon as he can. To superstitions, to sellers of wares, to 'the fashions', to animal emotions, to machines even.

Seneca said: ' Show me a man who isn't a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves of hope and fear.' (Lett. 47) In order to regain human dignity, the Way, happiness, invulnerability to chance, harmony with Nature ..., liberate yourself. Think Free! That is the real life. That is the reality of life, is control, is the Way. [148], [6], [9], [10], [17], [33], [40], [45], [80]