• Banana@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Hahaha no I cannot take credit for that one, that’s from an old British historian from the late 1800s

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        Lord Acton. He was a Liberal Party bigwig (the Liberals were the pro-capitalist party, opposing the pro-aristocracy Conservatives-- the modern US definition of liberalism has little to do with their policies). The quote is from 1887.

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        Pretty sure there’s also some stoic philosophers who made such observations. Also I’m pretty sure Diogenes said something like that if not in words then in spirit.