A passage from Epictetus

Epictetus, Enchiridion 39

The body is to everyone the proper measure of his possessions, as the foot is of the shoe. If, therefore, you stop at this, you will keep the measure; but if you move beyond it, you must necessarily be carried forward, as down a precipice.
Epictetus·Enchiridion·39·trans. Thomas Higginson
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