"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."

Forgiveness

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This quotation examines the core nature of Forgiveness as articulated by Gilbert Murray. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Forgiveness provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Gilbert Murray

George Gilbert Aimé Murray was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, who served as Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1908 to 1936. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.

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"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."

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"The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."

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"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven."

— Thomas Fuller
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"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."

— Chanakya
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

— Honore de Balzac
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