Three ways to offend.
In the east lived an old man who taught his students as follows:
"People insult in three ways. They may say you're stupid, they may call you a slave, they may call you untalented. If this happens to you, remember a simple truth: only a fool will call another fool, only a slave seeks a slave in another, only mediocrity justifies what he himself does not understand in someone else's madness.
Therefore, never be offended by anyone, and don't insult yourself, so as not to be branded as stupid and untalented slaves."
The wisdom of the East