“You are a little soul, carrying a corpse.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Fragment xxvi.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?”
— Malcolm Lowry, book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. X (p. 287)
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