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“When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.”
Provenance
- Source:
- IV, 771-4 (tr. Helminski, 1996)
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9607c928320b7f997624bdb19e9c3e501dc07191dadc25edb4ef3322d134f776
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