If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, 'He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.'
Stoic philosopher, former slave
Discourses and Selected Writings
c. 1st-2nd Century AD
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