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Enchiridion, 33 (c. AD 135) [tr. Long (1888)] - Epictetus | WIST Quotations
If a man has reported to you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only. Alt. trans.: "If anyone…