“Neither desire nor aversion.”
“Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, ‘Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.’”
“Let me test you.”
“Let me spend some time with you.”
Discourses (Epictetus, AD 55 – 135)
Book II, ch. 18.