Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him. Franklin,...

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So in the case of the Himeraeans; for when Pompey had determined on severely punishing their city, as they had been abettors of the...

Everything has two handles, by one of which it ought to be carried and by the other not. If your brother wrongs you, do not lay hold of the matter by the handle of the wrong that he is doing, because this is the handle by which the matter ought not to be carried; but rather by the other handle – that he is your brother, that you were brought up together, and then you will be laying hold of the matter by the handle by which it ought to be carried.

III.35

Chilon the philosopher on What is Hard: