When a man has done you any wrong, immediately consider with what opinion about good or evil he has done wrong. For when you have seen this, you will pity him, and will neither wonder nor be angry.
For either you yourself think the same thing to be good that he does, or another thing of the same kind. It is your duty then to pardon him.
But if you do not think such things to be good or evil, you will more readily be well disposed to him who is in error.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.26
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