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Socrates
“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”
― Socrates
tags: forgiveness, nobility
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women
tags: politics, propaganda
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