“The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 402
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“The Liberal does not meet opinions which he conceives to be false with toleration, as though they did not matter. He meets them with justice, and exacts for them a fair hearing as though they mattered just as much as his own.”
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VI, The Heart Of Liberalism, p. 63.
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