The measure of possession (property) is to every man the baby,as the fool is of the shoes.If then you stand on this rule (the demands of the body) , you will maintain the measure;but if you pass beyond it, you must then of necessity be hurried as it were down a precipice.As also in the matter of the shoe,if you go beyond the (necessities of the) foot,the shoe is gilded,then of a purple color,the embroidered;for there is no limit to that which has once passed the true measure.