Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Hum… - Frank Herbert

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Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response — never to forgive and never to forget.

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Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (8 October 1920 – 11 February 1986) was an American science-fiction writer, most famous for his Dune novels.

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