Do these advantages then appear to you to be trifling?
Heaven forbid! Be content therefore with these, and thank the gods." And again in one of his _Fragments_ (viii.

ix.):-- "Freedom and slavery are but names, respectively, of virtue and of vice: and both of them depend upon the will.

But neither of them have anything to do with those things in which the will has no share.

For no one is a slave whose will is free." "Fortune is an evil bond of the body, vice of the soul; for he is a slave whose body is free but whose soul is bound, and, on the contrary, he is free whose body is bound but whose soul is free." Who does not catch in these passages the very tone of St, Paul when he says, "He that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant ?" Nor is his independence less clearly express when he speaks of his deformity.

Being but the deformity of a body which he despised, he spoke of himself as "an ethereal existence staggering under the burden of a corpse." In his admirable chapter on Contentment, he very forcibly lays down that topic of consolation which is derived from the sense that "the universe is not made for our individual satisfaction." "_Must my leg be lame_ ?" he supposes some querulous objector to inquire.