Meditations VI.6

The best way of avenging thyself is not to do likewise.⁸

• 8.Compare Epictetus’s Fragments 130. So Diogenes, being asked “How shall I avenge myself of mine enemy?” said, “By behaving like a gentleman,” Plutarch’s How to Study Poetry 5.

  The Fragments of Epictetus are sayings preserved by later writers outside Arrian’s Discourses and Manual. Plutarch’s How to Study Poetry is an essay on reading the poets for moral instruction.