Epictetus. (№ 440009)

What am I? Human. If I look at myself as an object separate and independent from other objects, then it follows that I live long, that I be rich, happy, healthy; but if I look at myself as a person, as a part of a whole, then it may sometimes happen that in relation to this whole I must submit to illness, want, or even perish an untimely death. What right have I to complain in such a case? Don't I know that by complaining I cease to be human, just as the leg ceases to be an organ of the body when it refuses to walk?