FORBEARANCE

Arrogance leads a man to do wrong to you. But your pride should be to defeat him by your forbearance.Your forbearance will prove your greater worth and disillusion his pride. Forbearance is not a negative thing. It is an effective blow delivered to the wrongdoer's pride. This is the defeat referred to. It is not a platitude.The incisive rationalist approach is a common characteristic of Tiru-Valluvar and Marcus Aurelius.

The man that shows forbearance in the face of insult has truly practised the discipline of the sanyasin though he is a householder. Ascetics go without food and do penance, but forbearance in the face of the foolish attacks of ignorant men is a greater penance than such fasting.  

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