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“The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.”

Ifs Home Past Pay Objects Stones Hatred Fortune Dear Miserable Compliment Ancestor Good Fortune What You Love Peninsulas Compliments You

Author:Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?”

Ability Wonder Objects Hatred Superiors Admiration Display Athletic Classmates Athletic Ability

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”

Men Has Beens Dies Courses Levels Common Break Fate Dying Objects He Man Fame Glory Hatred Raised Sake Envy Noble Pursue Merit Lasting Usual Submit Strain Posterity Splendor Aversion

Author:Thucydides

“Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.”

Hate Goal Grief Share Objects Destruction Hatred Anger Peers Fury Distortion

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.”

Love Hate Differences Love Is Objects Hatred Lovely Concentration Principal Love Hate Love And Hate

Book:Strictly personal

Source: Strictly personal

“I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.”

Men States Hate Politics Objects Hatred Tired Every Man Contention

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.”

Men World Hate Animal Existence Objects Consequence Hatred Endure

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.”

Facts Together Objects Hatred Envy Pursue

Author:Jean de la Bruyere