Friday, April 24, 2015

 

Self-Flagellation

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), "Lucian and Timotheus," Imaginary Conversations (Lucian speaking):
If we are to give pain to anyone because he thinks differently from us, we ought to begin by inflicting a few smart stripes on ourselves; for both upon light and upon grave occasions, if we have thought much and often, our opinions must have varied.



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