...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. - T. H. White

The blessing of forgetfulness: that was the first essential. If everything one did, or which one’s fathers had done, was an endless sequence of Doings doomed to break forth bloodily, then the past must be obliterated and a new start made. Man must be ready to say: Yes, since Cain there has been injustice, but we can only set the misery right if we accept a status quo. Lands have been robbed, men slain, nations humiliated. Let us now start fresh without remembrance, rather than live forward and backward at the same time. We cannot build the future by avenging the past. Let us sit down as brothers, and accept the Peace of God.

The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.