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Keep company with an impure companion and you become impure too, even if you started out pure

Drawn from what Epictetus said

Subjectfriendship
What this subject means

friendship The company you keep: whether the people around you make you better or worse, and how to choose them.

On the topicDo you become the people you spend time with?under our view: Bad company corrupts you, however good you were to begin with

What Epictetus actually said

  1. Epictetus Greek Stoic philosopher (born in the 50s CE
    For you must know, that if your companion be impure, he also who keeps company with him must become impure, though he should happen to be pure.

    Where this was said

    ↗Encheiridion of Epictetus, as recorded by Arrian (tr. George Long, 1877)gutenberg.org

    c. 89–135 CE

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