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Chapter 28
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[28.1] εἰ μὲν τὸ σῶμά σού τις ἐπέτρεπε τῷ ἀπαντήσαντι, ἠγανάκτεις ἄν· ὅτι δὲ σὺ τὴν γνώμην τὴν σεαυτοῦ ἐπιτρέπεις τῷ τυχόντι, ἵνα, ἐὰν λοιδορήσηταί σοι, ταραχθῇ ἐκείνη καὶ συγχυθῇ, οὐκ αἰσχύνῃ τούτου ἕνεκα;
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[28.1] If someone entrusted your body to any passerby, you would be indignant. Yet you entrust your own mind to anyone at all, so that if he abuses you, it is troubled and thrown into confusion. Are you not ashamed of this?
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[28.1] If someone handed your body over to every person he happened to meet, you would be indignant. But are you not ashamed that you hand your own mind over to anyone at all, so that if he insults you, your mind is disturbed and thrown into confusion?