Meditations V.27

Walk with the Gods! And he does walk with the Gods, who lets them see his soul invariably satisfied with its lot and carrying out the will of that ‘genius,’ a particle⁵⁶ of himself, which Zeus has given to every man as his captain and guide⁵⁷—and this is none other than each man’s intelligence and reason.

• 56.See ii. 1, 4; xii. 26, 30.
• 57.Epictetus’s Discourses i. 14, § 12: ἐπίτροπον ἑκάστῳ παρέστησε (namely, Zeus) τὸν ἑκάστου δαίμονα καὶ παρέδωκε φυλάσσειν αὐτὸν αὐτῷ.

  Epictetus’s Greek, in translation: “he has set beside each man as guardian his own daimōn, and entrusted him to its keeping.”