The Instructor 3.12.92

bear a grudge against his neighbor; let him not love a false oath.” He threatens liars and the conceited too, the former somewhat thus: “Woe to those who call sweet bitter and bitter sweet”; the latter thus: “Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.” “He who humbles himself will be exalted, and he who exalts himself will be humbled.” He blesses the merciful, “for they shall obtain mercy,” while Wisdom pronounces anger wretched, “for it will destroy even the prudent.” And now he commands us to love our enemies, to bless those who curse us, and to pray for those who mistreat us. “To him who strikes you on the cheek,” he says, “offer the other also, and if anyone takes away your tunic, do not withhold your cloak as well.” Concerning faith: “Whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive,” he says; but “nothing is trustworthy to the faithless,” as Pindar says. Servants should be treated like ourselves, for they are human beings as we are: “For God, if you consider, is the same to all, to the free and to slaves.”