“Yet with my nobler
reason 'gaitist my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”— English playwright-poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest (1610-1611)
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance.”— English playwright-poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest (1610-1611)
The wisdom of maturity—Prospero’s as well as
Shakespeare’s—is summed up in these lines. Too bad that far too many people in
public life fail to realize or practice it.
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