Is your body free or enslaved? You don't know? Well, let me tell you. Your body is a slave to fever, gout, eye infections, stomach problems, dictators, fire, weapons — anything stronger than it. Yes, it's a slave. So how can anything that belongs to your body be truly free from interference? And how can something be great or valuable when it's naturally dead matter — just earth and mud? So do you own anything that's actually free? Maybe nothing. But wait — who can force you to believe something that seems false to you? No one.
Do you possess the body then free or is it in servile condition? We do not know. Do you not know that it is the slave of fever, of gout, ophthalmia, dysentery, of a tyrant, of fire, of iron, of everything which is stronger? Yes, it is a slave. How then is it possible that anything which belongs to the body can be free from hindrance? and how is a thing great or valuable which is naturally dead, or earth, or mud? Well then, do you possess nothing which is free? Perhaps nothing. And who is able to compel you to assent to that which appears false? No man.