"Above all, keep a close watch on this - that you are never so tied to your former acquaintances and friends that you are pulled down to their level. If you don't you'll be ruined . . . you must choose whether to be loved by these friends and remain the same person, or to become a better person at the cost of those friends . . . if you try to have it both ways you will neither make progress nor keep what you once had."
~ Epictetus, Discourses, 4.2.1;4-5
"From good people you'll learn good, but if you mingle with the bad you'll destroy such soul as you had."
~ Musonius Rufus, quoting Theogonis of Megara in Lectures. 11.53.21-22
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