Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the trash of all things unto this day.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Christ commanded us to bear insults meekly, both so that we might grow in virtue ourselves and that we might put our adversaries to shame. That effect is best produced not by reproach but by silence.
