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Self Defense

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. - Plato.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs. – Aristotle.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. – Socrates.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith. - Plato.