It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
— Epictetus
It is our own judgment of an insult, not the insult itself, that provokes us.
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— Unknown
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— Gautama Buddha
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— Unknown
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