Who is free and who is a slave? How can we live a good life? When do things and situations become masters of ourselves?

Our body, our health, our home, and our possessions do not belong to us, argues Epictetus. They are not under our control, and therefore, when we desire any of these things, we desire something that does not depend on us.

And the person who desires things that do not depend on themselves can only be a slave. "Clean your ideas so that nothing that is not yours ties you down, so that nothing foreign develops alongside you, and do not be sad if something leaves you. And say, practicing every day, just as you practice in the gym, not that you are doing philosophy, but that you are trying to gain your freedom. Because that is true freedom."