“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”

—  Pythagoras

As quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley
Variant: Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

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ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BC

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