When Antisthenes turned his cloak so that the tear in it came into view, "I see," said he, "your vanity through your cloak."
To one who said, "Don't you find so-and-so very offensive?" his reply was, "No, for it takes two to make a quarrel."
We ought not to object, he used to say, to be subjects for the Comic poets, for if they satirize our faults they will do us good, and if not they do not touch us.
—Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 2.36
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