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.
Athenian statesman
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.
430 BC (approximate, as recorded by Thucydides)
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