No one is free who is a slave to the body.

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman statesman, philosopher, playwright [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]

Moral Letters to Lucilius [Epistulae morales ad Lucilium], letter 92, sec. 33, “On the Happy Life” (tr. R. Gummere (1918)]