An idea from Discourses and Enchiridion

Asked your country, say the world, since every person is a child of God. The same kinship makes the slave who brings lukewarm water your brother. Yet the teacher, once a slave himself, never tells owners to free anyone. He asks them to master their temper instead.

From Discourses and Enchiridion by Epictetus

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