Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson

‘What you did tonight was clever,’ Wit said. ‘You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.’

A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.’