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and,
generally, if it is well with us in regard to the gods, especially as to
intimations from signs and oracles, and everything else of the kind; for anger
inspires confidence, and it is the wrong that we suffer and not that which we
inflict upon others that causes anger, and the gods are supposed to assist those
who are wronged.1
1 It is assumed that the gods will be on our side if we have suffered wrong; suffering wrong rouses anger and at the same time inspires confidence, if our relations with the gods are such that we feel we can rely upon them for assistance.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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