Is it possible, then, to derive advantage from these things? – Yes, from everything. – Even from the man who reviles me? – And what good does his wrestling-companion do the athlete? The very greatest. So also my reviler becomes one who prepares me for my contest; he exercises my patience, my dispassionateness, my gentleness.

“men remonstrate with friends who are in error, accusations they reserve for enemies who have wronged them.”