It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong.
And this happens, if when they do wrong it occurs to you that they are kinsmen, and that they do wrong through ignorance and unintentionally, and that soon both of you will die.
And above all, that the wrongdoer has done you no harm, for he has not made your ruling faculty worse than it was before.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.22
IMAGE: Rembrandt, The Return of the Prodigal Son (c. 1668)
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