For you are angry with me, who have no hand in the matter, and with yourselves too, if I may say so, for assenting to my counsels and sharing in my errors.
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From Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War', Pericles' last speech to the Athenians. A somewhat condescending remark, implying the people are to blame for their own anger and for following his 'errors,' potentially seen as politically incorrect or arrogant.
Date: 430 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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