Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
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And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.
In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.
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Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . .
Though good and bad men suffer alike, we must not suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves, because there is no difference in what they both suffer. For even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an unlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same anguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the same fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and under the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain is cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though squeezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same violence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but damns, ruins, exterminates the wicked.
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
And so also Theseus proceeded in the punishment of evil men, who underwent the same violence from him which they had inflicted upon others, justly suffering after the manner of their own injustice.
Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.
(Sthenelaidas:) If they behaved well in the Persian War and are now behaving badly to us they ought to be punished twice over, because they were once good men and have become bad.
(Book 1 Chapter 86.1)
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence, but something inside them meant the same thing, wanted the same release, would have left the same impression on the memory of an onlooker.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
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Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled to precisely as much honor as those that went.
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