INFLUENCE.
If a man has frequent intercourse with others, either in the way of conversation, entertainment, or simple familiarity, he must either become like them, or change them to his own fashion. A live coal placed next a dead one will either kindle that or be quenched by it. Such being the risk, it is well to be cautious in admitting intimacies of this sort, remembering that one cannot rub shoulders with a soot-stained man without sharing the soot oneself. . . . How comes it then that they prove so much stronger than you ? Because they speak from the fulness of the heart—their low, corrupt views are their real convictions; whereas your fine sentiments are but from the lips, outwards; that is why they are so nerveless and dead. It turns one’s stomach to listen to your exhortations, and hear of your miserable Virtue, that you prate of up and down. Thus it is that the Vulgar prove too strong for you. Everywhere strength, everywhere victory waits your conviction!—Epictetus.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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167INFLUENCE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 15 (Supplement)
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