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the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body,
the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these
things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good
and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is
beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who
does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or
seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same
portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for
no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my
kinsman, nor hate him, For we are made for co-operation, like feet,
like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth.
To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is
acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.
(podcast episode) (original Greek)
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