Not welded past recall. Against the excuse "I am too caught up in the body to be my own master": TERMnature "has not so mingled (συνεκέρασε) you with the compound (σύγκριμα) as not to allow you to DOGMAcircumscribe yourself (περιορίζειν ἑαυτόν) and keep your own in your own power." The term περιορίζειν — "to draw a boundary around" — is the same as in 7.55 and 5.26: the ruling part can wall itself off from the bodily, however densely it is blended into it. Freedom is not the absence of the blend but the capacity to draw a line within it.

Godlike and unknown. The rift between fame and virtue, continuing 7.66: "it is quite possible to become a divine man (θεῖον ἄνδρα) and be recognized by no one." Greatness needs no witnesses (cf. 7.62). Hence the consolation of DOGMAsufficiency: "in the very least lies (ἐν ὀλιγίστοις κεῖται) the happy life" (εὐδαιμόνως βιῶσαι; cf. 2.5 — "how few things are needed for the smooth-flowing life").

Not a dialectician — then at least a human being. The close dispels intellectual snobbery: though you have "despaired of becoming a dialectician and natural philosopher" (διαλεκτικὸς καὶ φυσικός — a master of logic and of physics), that is no reason to give up the chief thing — to be "free, modest, TERMsocial, and obedient to god (εὐπειθὴς θεῷ)." Four things always in your power, unlike learning: ethics demands no talent, only resolve. The strict terms (φύσις, κοινωνικός) are in the text; εὐδαιμόνως is an adverb, not the lemma εὐδαιμονία (the link is in the commentary). The governing discipline is desire; the sustaining one, action.