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

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Tacitus
Roman - Historian
55 - 120

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

Tacitus

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Tacitus

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

Charlotte Lennox

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

Tacitus

Whom they have injured they also hate.

Seneca the Younger

... 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

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

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 characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

Tacitus

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Patrick O'Brian

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Philibert Joseph Roux

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Bertrand Russell

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

Thucydides

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in the careful study of nature, and in the laws of nature, the foundations of the division of property, and the practice of all ages has consecrated the principle of private ownership, as being pre-eminently in conformity with human nature, and as conducing in the most unmistakable manner to the peace and tranquility of human existence.

Pope Leo XIII

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli

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