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Antisthenes of Athens | Seneca, "On Firmness"
<blockquote>Let us turn now to the examples of those whose endurance we commend - for instance to that of Socrates, who took in good part the published and acted gibes directed against him in comedies, and laughed as heartily as when his wife Xanthippe drenched him with foul water. Antisthenes was taunted with having a barbarian, a Thracian woman, for his mother; his retort was that even the mother of the gods was from Mount Ida.
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