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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: know when he sees you;--whether a good or bad one, he will know
if he has any skill in discerning the good or bad. But if he has
none, he will never know, though I write him a thousand times."--
It is as though a piece of silver money desired to be recommended
to some one to be tested. If the man be a good judge of silver,
he will know: the coin will tell its own tale.
LVIII
Even as the traveller asks his way of him that he meets,
inclined in no wise to bear to the right rather than to the left
(for he desires only the way leading whither he would go), so
should we come unto God as to a guide; even as we use our eyes
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