3. But the Epicurean denying this, and saying, God forbid, Epictetus said:
Is it not fit, then, that we should be zealous about that, the chief thing?
——“Of all things most fit.”
What, then, have we greater than the flesh?
——“The soul,” he said.
And the good of the chief thing, is it greater than the good of the lower thing?
——“The good of the chief thing is greater.”
And the good things of the soul, are they in the power of the Will, or beyond the Will?
——“They are in the power of the Will.”
The pleasure of the soul, then, is within the power of the Will?