Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), X : Religion, the Mythology of the Beyond and the Apocatastasis
“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
— Walter Scott, book Ivanhoe
Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 33, The Black Knight speaking to Locksley.
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