First, those who manage well the circumstances which they encounter day by day; and those who can judge situations approximately as they arise and rarely miss the suitable course of action.
Next, those who are honorable in their dealings with
all people, bearing easily what is unpleasant or offensive in others and being as
reasonable with their associates as is humanly possible.
Furthermore, those who hold their pleasures always
under control and are not unduly overcome by their misfortunes, bearing up
under them bravely and in a manner worthy of our common nature.
Most important of all, those who are not spoiled by
their successes, who do not desert their true selves, but hold their ground
steadfastly as wise and sober-minded person, rejoicing no more in the good things
that have come to them through chance than in those which through their own
nature and intelligence and theirs since birth.
Those who have a character which is in accord, not
with one of these things, but with all of them, these are educated—possessed of
all virtues.
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