Epictetus: Enchiridion, XXXIII
“If a man has reported to you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defence to what has been told you.”
Reflection
The advice is about where you spend your energy, not about swallowing hurt. What would you do with the hour you would have spent defending yourself?
Source record
- Author
- Epictetus
- Original source
- Enchiridion, XXXIII
- Original date
- c. 125 AD
- Edition used
- Trans. George Long, 1877 — public domain
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