Accepting Abuse
When a simpleton abused him, Lord Buddha listened to him in silence, but
when the man had finished, the Buddha asked him, "Son, if a man declined to
accept a present offered to him, to whom would it belong?"The man answered, "To him who offered it."
"My son," Buddha said, "I decline to accept your abuse. Keep it for
yourself."
-- Lord Buddha, as told by Will Durant