Great Throughts Treasury

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Man | Respect | Ridicule | Right | Thinking | Wisdom | Respect |

Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL

The good hate sin because they love virtue.

Good | Hate | Love | Sin | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

E. Stanley Jones, fully Eli Stanley Jones

A rattlesnake, if cornered, will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself.

Hate | Resentment | Will | Wisdom |

D. H. Lawrence, fully David Herbert "D.H." Lawrence

The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

Censor | Consciousness | Hate | Wisdom |

Walter Savage Landor

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without hilt.

Ridicule | Truth | Wisdom |

David M. Levy

If we know as much about mental health as we do about physical health, an epidemic of hate would be considered as dangerous as an epidemic of typhoid.

Hate | Health | Wisdom |

Abraham Isaac Kook

It is our right to hate an evil man for his actions, but because his deepest self is the image of God, it is our duty to honor him with love.

Duty | Evil | God | Hate | Honor | Love | Man | Right | Self | Wisdom |

André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog

Some truths between husband and wife must be spoken with sweetness. Wounded vanity is fatal to love. It makes one hate the person who inflicted the wound. In married conversation, as in surgery, the knife must be used with care.

Care | Conversation | Hate | Husband | Love | Wife | Wisdom | Truths |

James Russell Lowell

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love is the true atheism.

Atheism | Faith | Hate | Love | Truth | Wisdom |

Thomas Merton

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and the disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war.

Hate | People | Soul | War | Wisdom | Think |

Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti NULL

Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties; and it has reduced men and parties to the difficult task of building slowly after sad experience on the ruins of discord.

Evolution | Experience | Hate | Justice | Men | Reconciliation | Revolution | Salvation | Wisdom |

Sydney Smith

Wit gives to life one of its best flavors; common-sense leads to immediate action, and gives society its daily motion; large and comprehensive views, its annual rotation; ridicule chastises folly and imprudence, and keeps men in their proper sphere; subtlety seizes hold of the find threads of truth; analogy darts away in the most sublime discoveries; feeling paints all the exquisite passions of man’s soul, and rewards him by a thousand inward visitations for the sorrows that come from without.

Action | Folly | Life | Life | Man | Men | Ridicule | Sense | Society | Soul | Truth | Wisdom | Wit | Society |

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.

Hate | Indigestion | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |