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“Never say never or it becomes a vice, and there you have it, you just did it twice.”

Source: Pierrot Love: When A Call From The Other Side Takes Its Own Side

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

Hate Virtue Morality Envy Dishonesty Indignation Double Standards Vice

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“My hate is general, I detest all men; Some because they are wicked and do evil, Others because they tolerate the wicked, Refusing them the active vigorous scorn Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

Hate Evil Virtue Wicked Scorn Detest Toleration Vice Misanthrope

Book:The Misanthrope

Source: The Misanthrope

“People don't hate your limits, they hate your habits.”

Hate Attitude Hatred Behaviour Bad Habits Limitations Sins Virtues Vice Shortcoming

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“To hate is a virtue when you hate the vice.”

Hate Virtue Vice

Author:Ravi Ranjan Goswami

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.”

Peace Trouble Greed Fishing Materialism Politicians Disdain Filth Unrest Upheaval Vice Demagoguery Slime Eels Grime Unclean

Book:The Knights

Source: The Knights

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.”

Source: The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress.”

Source: The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse