Marcus Aurelius: Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. — Marcus Aurelius

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

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