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user-inactivated  ·  4530 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 4 Brilliant Remarks From History’s Wisest American

    Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

A lot of bad things happened to these people.

(Unrelated: I take umbrage with the titular descriptor.)