Meditations 1:6

DIOGNETUS

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail—fighting or other crazes like that. To hear unwelcome truths. To practice philosophy, and to study with

Baccheius, and then with Tandasis and Marcianus. To write dialogues as a student. To choose the Greek lifestyle—the camp—bed and the cloak.