“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.”

Book 6, section 6. In Long's text the last three words stand in square brackets: they are his supplement, since the Greek only implies them.

Kept in the first week of July. Nobody wronged me. A first one-to-one with Katarina Brandl was stiff, I had no numbers ready, and I spent a tram ride composing a cooler version of myself to bring to the next one. That is the thing the line warns against: answering a manner by copying it. Whatever the month is, I would like to still be recognisable at the end of it.