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Often appears with: self-examination · justice as a virtue · ignorance and error · friendship and loyalty · friendship and loving the good · education and the training of the young
Usually: argument (1) · reconciliation (1) · curiosity (1) · exhortation (1)
Epictetus tells his listeners to constantly test their own minds—seeking knowledge of good and bad and readiness to obey teachers—and then transitions to a practical account of friendship as love of what is truly good.
But men do not imagine injustice to be at all involuntary. There is also in jealousy, as they suppose, something involuntary; and for this reason they confess to jealousy also. Living then among such men, who are so confused, so ignorant of what they say, and of the evils which they have or have not, and why they have them, or how they shall be relieved of them, I think it is worth the trouble for a man to watch con…