These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you,
therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than
you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary
these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my
possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent
than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But
you are neither possession nor speech.
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The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheridion and Fragments. Epictetus. George Long. translator. London. George Bell and Sons. 1890.
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