Meditations V.28

If a man’s armpits are unpleasant, art thou angry with him? If he has foul breath? What would be the use? The man has such a mouth, he has such armpits. Some such effluvium was bound to come from such a source. But the man has sense, quotha! With a little attention he could see wherein he offends. I congratulate thee! Well, thou too hast sense. By a rational attitude, then, in thyself evoke a rational attitude in him,⁵⁸ enlighten him, admonish him. If he listen, thou shalt cure him,⁵⁹ and have no need of anger.

Neither tragedian nor harlot.

• 58.x. 4; Epictetus’s Discourses ii. 8, § 11.
• 59.Compare St. Matthew xviii. 15.

  Matthew 18:15 has “if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother” (King James).