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It is much more agreeable to offend and later ask forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness. The one who does the former demonstrates his power and then his goodness. The other, if he does not want to be thought inhuman, must forgive; because of this coercion, pleasure in the other's humiliation is slight.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844–1900)
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Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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