"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
"Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent."
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Source: On a Darkling Plain. Book by Richard Lee Byers, 1995.
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