Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus XCVI


XCVI

Pittacus,(12) wronged by one whom he had it in his power to punish, let him go free, saying, Forgiveness is better than revenge. The one shows native gentleness, the other savagery.

(12) One of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He ruled Mytilene in Lesbos in the seventh century B.C.

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