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It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get
To hate fatigues
Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves
In time we hate that which we often fear
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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