Don't Assent to Untrue Impressions

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Don't be easily convinced by someone using slanderous language that the thing or person they are slandering is actually deserving of such slandering. Don't admit that slander into your mind so that it might cause you to assent to untrue impressions about people or situations. Not to become overly passionate about sports, for doing so might suggest some sort of deeper favor that isn't there. To keep our minds to ourselves unless we reason it is appropriate to do otherwise. And lastly, not to easily believe what we hear of others. For what we hear may or may not be true, and if we come to believe it too quickly, we may make a long series of decisions based on inaccurate information

"Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of the two great factions of the coursers in the circus, called Prasini, and Veneti: nor in the amphitheatre partially to favour any of the gladiators, or fencers, as either the Parmularii, or the Secutores. Moreover, to endure labour; nor to need many things; when I have anything to do, to do it myself rather than by others; not to meddle with many businesses; and not easily to admit of any slander." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 1.2

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