MY ENEMY'S ENEMY IS NOT MY FRIEND
Say after me - I will not reconcile myself to malice because some among its victims have behaved maliciously to me. Nor will I rejoice in the defeat of my adversaries at the hands of the ignorant, no matter how loudly they call for mine…
Say after me - Other than the tyrant himself, no one is the beneficiary of tyranny. Once the curtain of anarchy falls, darkness will bury us all, the good and the evil alike…
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