“During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you — they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.”
Nahj al-Balagha
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“Neither you nor any man alive shall do this unpunished: no, you shall give recompense to me with your life-blood.”
Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus
hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas.
Ennius (-239–-169 BC) Roman writer
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia; Book VI, Chapter I
Compare: Tu tamen interea calido mihi sanguine poenas persolves amborum, Virgil, Aeneid, Book IX, line 422
Victoria Duffield (1995) Canadian actor, singer and dancer
Source: Interview: Canada’s Hottest New Pop Star Victoria Duffield https://www.realstylenetwork.com/celebrities/2012/02/interview-canadas-hottest-new-pop-star-victoria-duffield/ (2012)
“You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.”
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) American investor
As quoted by Warren Buffett, in an interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974)
Umar (585–644) Second Caliph of Rashidun Caliphate and a companion of Muhammad
Al-Bukhari and Muslim, Riyad as-Salihin, Book 1, Hadith 167 https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/1/167.
Joseph N. Welch (1890–1960) American lawyer
As cited in: Thomas Doherty, Thomas Patrick Doherty (2013) Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture. p. 207
Army–McCarthy hearings (9 June 1954)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
11 May 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)