"Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill - will, and selfishness - all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil.

But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother; therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading.

Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man's two hands, feet or eyelids, or the upper and lower rows of his teeth.

To obstruct each other is against Nature's law - and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction.”