Those who try to hinder you as you move forward according to right reason do not have the power to turn you away from sound actions. Neither should you allow them to drive away the benevolent disposition that you have toward them. So guard yourself equally in these two circumstances: not only firmness in your judgments and actions but also gentleness with those who try to hinder or annoy you in some other way. For to be angry with them is weakness, just as much as it is weakness to abandon your practices or to yield because of fear. For both are deserters of their post: the trembling coward,
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