Dostoevsky.

💬The one who is best at deceiving himself is the first to take offense. After all, it is sometimes very pleasant to be offended. Isn't it? And a person knows that no one has offended him, but he himself has invented an offense and lied for embellishment, exaggerated it to create a picture. He latched onto a word - made a mountain out of a molehill. He knows this himself, yet he is the first to take offense. He takes offense to the point of great pleasure, and thereby reaches true enmity...