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“Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge."”
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- Source:
- Pittacus. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- df8ef2de72960ba1c4d1d1e07eb0c55bbdb4223b5442046ce2b27625c7230476
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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