To seem disturbed at calumny, is the way to make it believed, and stabbing your defamer, will not prove you innocent. Live an exemplary life, and then your good character will overcome and refute the calumny.
Blair
Answering slander only makes it look true; a consistently good life refutes it best.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.
— Cato
Calumniators have neither good hearts, nor good understandings.
— Bulwer
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— Ellen G. White
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— Antonin Scalia
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— Boerhave
