Should I try to please you? Why? I suppose you know how one person judges another. Have you bothered to learn what makes someone good or bad? And how someone becomes one way or the other? Then why aren't you good yourself? "How am I not good?" he asks. Because no good person complains or groans or cries. No good person turns pale and shakes, or says "How will he treat me? How will he listen to me?" You fool, however it pleases him. Why do you care about what belongs to other people? Is it his fault if he receives poorly what comes from you? Of course. And can one person have the fault while another person suffers the harm? No. Then why are you worried about what belongs to other people?
Should I try to please you? Why? I suppose, you know the measure by which one man is estimated by another. Have you taken pains to learn what is a good man and what is a bad man, and how a man becomes one or the other? Why then are you not good yourself? How, he replies, am I not good? Because no good man laments or groans or weeps, no good man is pale and trembles, or says, How will he receive me, how will he listen to me? Slave, just as it pleases him. Why do you care about what belongs to others? Is it now his fault if he receives badly what proceeds from you? Certainly. And is it possible that a fault should be one man's, and the evil in another? No. Why then are you anxious about that which belongs to others?