Xxxviii. (2)

Consider him with whom you converse in one of these three ways; either as your superior, or inferior, or equal. If superior, you ought to hear him and be convinced; if inferior, to convince him; if equal, to agree with him; and thus you will never be led into the love of strife.

It is better, by yielding to truth, to conquer prejudice, than by yielding to principle to be defeated by truth.

If you seek truth, you will not seek merely victory at all hazards; and when you have found truth, you will have a security against being conquered.

Truth conquers by itself; prejudice, by appealing to externals.

It is better, through living with one free person, to be fearless and free, than to be a slave in company with many.

What you avoid suffering yourself, seek not to impose on others. You avoid slavery, for instance; take care not to enslave. For if you can bear to exact slavery from others, you appear to have been yourself a slave. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor freedom with slavery. As a person in health would not wish to be attended by the sick, nor to have those who live with him in a state of sickness; so neither would a person who is free bear to be served by slaves, nor to have those who live with him in a state of slavery.