Those who have wronged others should refrain from contentiousness

The anger of those who have been wronged is appeased whenever he who is to blame refrains from contentiousness... Demades. On the Twelve Years. Speech 1. Section 30.


Image: Oedipus in Thebes by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher, 1843, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Contributor VladoubidoOo

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