“My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“How to handle enemies and those who wrong or offend me.”
Four Minute Essays Vol. 7 (1919), A School for Living
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