In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these thoughts. Early in the morning say to yourself: Today I will deal with someone who meddles in my business, someone ungrateful, someone who insults others, someone sneaky and false, or someone jealous. I will meet someone unfriendly and unkind. All these bad qualities come from one thing — they don't understand what is truly good and what is truly bad. But I understand that only virtue is worth wanting, and only vice is truly disgusting and shameful.
In the country of the Quadi at Granua, these. Betimes in the morning say to thyself, This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of that which is truly good and truly bad. But I that understand the nature of that which is good, that it only is to be desired, and of that which is bad, that it only is truly odious and shameful: