A Quote by Charlotte Lennox

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

Charlotte Lennox

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Charlotte Lennox
Scottish - Novelist
1730 - January 4, 1804

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

Tacitus

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Lord Chesterfield

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Seneca the Younger

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.

Marcus Aurelius

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Tacitus

... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.

Margaret Campbell Barnes

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

Blaise Pascal

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Elizabeth Chandler

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Seneca the Younger

Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.