And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score o… - Epictetus

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And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.