If all other things are shared with lesser people, then what makes a good man unique is this: He accepts everything that happens to him. He doesn't trouble the spirit in his chest with useless worries and fantasies. He keeps that spirit calm and obeys it like a god. He never speaks lies or acts unjustly. This is what sets a good man apart. Even if no one believes he lives with integrity or contentment, he doesn't get angry about it. He doesn't let it pull him off the path that leads to life's end. A man must walk that path with purity, always ready to leave, willingly fitting himself to whatever fate gives him.
If therefore all things else be common to these likewise, it follows, that for a man to like and embrace all things that happen and are destinated unto him, and not to trouble and molest that spirit which is seated in the temple of his own breast, with a multitude of vain fancies and imaginations, but to keep him propitious and to obey him as a god, never either speaking anything contrary to truth, or doing anything contrary to justice, is the only true property of a good man. And such a one, though no man should believe that he liveth as he doth, either sincerely and conscionably, or cheerful and contentedly; yet is he neither with any man at all angry for it, nor diverted by it from the way that leadeth to the end of his life, through which a man must pass pure, ever ready to depart, and willing of himself without any compulsion to fit and accommodate himself to his proper lot and portion.