Letters from a Stoic by Senecaby Parker on TwosWe need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doingHappy the man who improves other people not merely when he is in their presence but even when he is in their thoughts. And happy, too, is the person who can so revere another as to adjust and shape his own personality in the light of recollections, even, of that other. A person able to revere another thus will soon deserve to be revered himselfThere is a need for someone as a standard against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler to do it against you won't make the crooked straight