Translations
Remember, that not he who gives ill language or a blow insults, but the principle which represents these things as insulting.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts; but the view we take of these things as insulting.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
Remember that it is not he who reviles you or strikes you, who insults you, but it is your opinion about these things as being insulting.George Long (1890)
Remember that foul words or blows in themselves are no outrage, but your judgement that they are so.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)