If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
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Clement Of Alexandria
AD 215
A reputation for nobility follows the refusal to remember ills and leads to the cessation of hostility. From this we become disposed to concord, and concord leads to happiness. If you catch anyone you regard as a traditional enemy acting stupidly and irrationally out of desire or temper, turn him toward good behavior. .