We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul.
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“Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows, who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.”
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Source: The Enchiridion — George Long translation (1877), Project Gutenberg #45109
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