Just in the same way ought we to act all through life, and where there are things which appear most worthy of our approbation, we ought to lay them bare and look at their worthlessness and strip them of all the words by which they are exalted.
Marcus Aurelius advocates for a lifelong practice of critically examining things that appear valuable, revealing their true nature by stripping away superficial praise.
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Besides this, he honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.
He was also easy in conversation, and he made himself agreeable without any offensive affectation.
For he who yields to pain and he who yields to anger, both are wounded and both submit.
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