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Quote card: If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, answer: he was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, answer: he was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”

Epictetus, Enchiridion, 33. Translations vary; this is a widely used English wording.

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