However many calamities fall upon your head, keep quiet. Be silent. Do not speak. Pay as little attention as…

However many calamities fall upon your head, keep quiet. Be silent. Do not speak. Pay as little attention as possible. Let yourself go with the current. Do not answer reproaches. The trial that has come to you is like a net: the more you flutter, the more entangled you become. Be calm. You will surely get out of the snare. Stand as if you were not there. Let those who attack not achieve their aims. Time will pass, and everything will fall into place. Those who hurt you will regret it; your face will be bright. Give a chance to those who say, “We will torment you, defeat you and taste the pleasure of victory”: let them enjoy themselves, thinking, “We have triumphed.” Yet this is a situation that is useless for them and beneficial for you. Such is patience and its fruit.