Epictetus to his disciples
Two things can happen when we meet someone: either we become friends, or we try to convince the other person to accept our convictions.
The same happens when the ember meets another piece of coal: either it shares its fire with it, or it is suffocated by its size and ends up extinguished.
As we are generally insecure at a first contact, we try indifference, arrogance or excessive humility.
The result is that we stop being who we are and things start heading towards a strange world that does not belong to us.
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