Adhering to that adage eventually becomes something masochistic and Sisyphean. Apply it to your personal relationships, but you will be steamrolled over and ov

Adhering to that adage eventually becomes something masochistic and Sisyphean. Apply it to your personal relationships, but you will be steamrolled over and over again if you naively assume good faith in politics, business, etc even after you've been flattened to a pancake.