I also know that any person who does wrong is my relative. Not by blood, but because we share the same ability to reason and the same divine spark. How can such people hurt me? They cannot make me do anything truly shameful. Why should I be angry at someone who is naturally so close to me? We are all born to work together, like feet and hands, like upper and lower teeth. To oppose each other goes against nature. Getting upset and turning away from each other is just opposition.
who know moreover, that this transgressor, whosoever he be, is my kinsman, not by the same blood and seed, but by participation of the same reason, and of the same divine particle; How can I either be hurt by any of those, since it is not in their power to make me incur anything that is truly reproachful? or angry, and ill affected towards him, who by nature is so near unto me? for we are all born to be fellow-workers, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids; as the rows of the upper and under teeth: for such therefore to be in opposition, is against nature; and what is it to chafe at, and to be averse from, but to be in opposition?