The Handbook

Whatever things (rules) are proposed[*](This may mean, what is proposed to you by philosophers, and especially in this little book. Sechweighaeuser thinks that it may mean what you have proposed to yourself: but he is inclined to understand it simply, what is proposed above, or taught above.) to you [for the conduct of life] abide by them, as if they were laws, as if you would be guilty of impiety if you transgressed any of them. And whatever any man shall say about you, do not attend to it: for this is no affair of yours.