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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

Marcus Aurelius

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Meditations
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c. 170
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Meric Casaubon — Translator · from Ancient Greek
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Meaning of “The best revenge is not to be like…”

Retaliation is rejected when it would reproduce the very behavior one condemns.

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Meditations 6.6; wording varies by translation.

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