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What does it mean?
People avoid places or people that have harmed them.
In plain terms
No one returns to those who hurt them.
What can you take from it?
Trust is broken by harm.

Where it applies

  • broken relationships
  • workplace returns
  • post-conflict

Putting it to work

  • avoid harming allies
  • acknowledge past injuries

Questions to consider

  • Why do people return?
  • Can harm be forgiven?

Another view

Some return out of necessity despite harm.

More from Phaedrus

  1. That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines.

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  2. Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

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  3. Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

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