century, Musonius’s Student Epictetus would again grapple with this tension between law and morality. Instead of his teacher’s inconsistency, however, Epictetus constructs an uneasy standard of graded morality. On the one hand, he advocates sexual relations only within marriage, which for himself and his ideal Cynic amounted to complete abstinence, since both were unmarried (Diss. 2.18.15–26; 3.22.13, 95; cf. 4.1.143). On the other hand, Epictetus is willing to give his blessing to all sexual practices