Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by vio…

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Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. ✨ Thucydides (1965). History of the Peloponnesian War, p.38, Hayes Barton Press
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