It is most needful that thou shouldst always remember this.
For so shalt thou be far more gentle and moderate towards all men.

XXXV. What pain soever thou art in, let this presently come
to thy mind, that it is not a thing whereof thou needest
to be ashamed, neither is it a thing whereby thy understanding,
that hath the government of all, can be made worse. For neither
in regard of the substance of it, nor in regard of the end of it
(which is, to intend the common good) can it alter and corrupt it.
This also of Epicurus mayst thou in most pains find some help of,
that it is 'neither intolerable, nor eternal;' so thou keep thyself
to the true bounds and limits of reason and give not way to opinion.
This also thou must consider, that many things there be,
which oftentimes unsensibly trouble and vex thee, as not armed
against them with patience, because they go not ordinarily under
the name of pains, which in very deed are of the same nature as pain;
as to slumber unquietly, to suffer heat, to want appetite:
when therefore any of these things make thee discontented,
check thyself with these words: Now hath pain given thee the foil;
thy courage hath failed thee.

XXXVI. Take heed lest at any time thou stand so affected,
though towards unnatural evil men, as ordinary men are commonly
one towards another.

XXXVII. How know we whether Socrates were so eminent indeed, and of
so extraordinary a disposition? For that he died more gloriously,
that he disputed with the Sophists more subtilly; that he watched in the
frost more assiduously; that being commanded to fetch innocent Salaminius,
he refused to do it more generously; all this will not serve.