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He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides
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For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
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