The best advice I have ever found outside of the Bible for when you suffer calumny is attributed to Plato: “When men speak ill of thee, so live that none will believe them.”
For a still more meaningful response to calumny, we are taught by St Peter:
“For what glory is it, if committing sin, and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently; this is thankworthy before God. For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow His steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. Who, when He was reviled, did not revile: when He suffered, He threatened not: but delivered Himself to him that judged Him unjustly. Who His own Self bore our sins in His Body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by Whose stripes you were healed.” (1 Pet 2:20-24)
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