Freedom is not achieved by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. - Epictetus

So in life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

Now, what does the title 'citizen' mean? In this role, a person never acts in his own interest or thinks of himself alone, but, like a hand or foot that had sense and realized its place in the natural order, all its actions and desires aim at nothing except contributing to the common good.