hath delivered thee to thine own care, saying, I had none more faithful than myself: keep this man for me such as Nature hath made him — modest, faithful, high-minded, a stranger to fear, to passion, to perturbation� .

Such will I show myself to you all. — ”What, exempt from sickness also: from age, from death?” — Nay, but accepting sickness, accepting death as becomes a God!

LXII

No labour, according to Diogenes, is good but that which aims at producing courage and strength of soul rather than of body.

LXIII

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path — he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off.