id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 871 Epictetus The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes .txt text/plain 23655 1701 89 Considering all these things, the good and true man submits his Asked how a man might eat acceptably to the Gods, Epictetus replied:--If Yet God hath placed by the side of each a man's own Guardian Spirit, who Wouldst thou have men speak good of thee? thus thou wilt reap in return their speaking good of thee. Nay, young man, for heaven's sake; but once thou hast heard these words, What art thou?--A man.--Looked at as standing by thyself and honour, nor are they portions of God. But thou art a thing preferred to that you know neither what God nor Man is--neither what Good or Evil is: free man; to look up to heaven as a friend of God, fearing nothing that God to men, to show unto them that as touching good and evil they are These things hast thou from thyself and from the Gods: only remember who ./cache/871.txt ./txt/871.txt