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Post-colonial literature2 quotes
This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt. — Arundhati Roy · 1997When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. — Arundhati Roy · 1997Autobiography and memoir1 quote
For we do not easily expect evil of those whom we love most. — Peter Abelard · 1132Biography1 quote
It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. — Tacitus · 56Didactic poem1 quote
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner. — Hesiod · 700 BCPhilosophical literature1 quote
We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. — Blaise Pascal · 1662