Jean de La Bruyère: They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no…
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
In today’s wordsPeople who think badly of us without knowing us do us no harm: they're attacking not us but a phantom of their own imagination.
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