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Yet is it more honourable, and just, and upright, and pleasing, to treasure in the memory good acts than bad.

— Xenophon Anabasis (-370)

ἀλλὰ μὴν καλόν γε καὶ δίκαιον καὶ ὅσιον καὶ ἥδιον τῶν ἀγαθῶν μᾶλλον ἢ τῶν κακῶν μεμνῆσθαι.

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