Everything Has Two Handles; The One Soft And Manageable, The Other Such As Will Not Endure To Be Touched.

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Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will
not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it
by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating
circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it
as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the
long friendship and familiarity between you- obligations to kindness which a
single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident
by the manageable handle.
-- Epictetus

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