(1) He hath entrusted me with myself: He hath made my will subject to myself alone and given me rules for the right use thereof.

(1) I.e., “good and just men.”

V

Rufus(2) used to say, If you have leisure to praise me, what I say is naught. In truth he spoke in such wise, that each of us who sat there, thought that some one had accused him to Rufus: — so surely did he lay his finger on the very deeds we did: so surely display the faults of each before his very eyes.

(2) C. Musonius Rufus, a Stoic philosopher, whose lectures Epictetus had attended.

VI

But what saith God? — “Had it been possible, Epictetus, I would have made both that body of thine and thy possessions free and unimpeded, but as it is, be not deceived: —