Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even an elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

Founder of Zoroastrianism

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From the Gathas or other Avestan texts.

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c. 6th century BC

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Humorous

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