“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” 1984
To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference. Book VIII
In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too. The Karamazov Brothers
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Pride and Prejudice
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