Haven't you heard there's only one path to this goal? You must give up the things that aren't under your control. Step back from them. Accept that they belong to other people. So when someone else has an opinion about you — what kind of thing is that? It's something outside your control. So is it anything to you? It's nothing. But when you still get upset and disturbed by it, do you really think you understand what's good and what's bad?
Have you not heard then that there is only one way which leads to this end, to give up (dismiss) the things which do not depend on the will, to withdraw from them, and to admit that they belong to others? For another man then to have an opinion about you, of what kind is it? It is a thing independent of the will—Then is it nothing to you? It is nothing. When then you are still vexed at this and disturbed, do you think that you are convinced about good and evil?