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We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 895.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 895.

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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Oscar Wilde

Intentions

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part I." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Hesiod

Works and Days

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Hesiod. Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι [Works and Days]. c. 700 BC, l. 265.

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Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 265.

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It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.

Tacitus

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Tacitus. Agricola. c. 98.

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Tacitus. "Agricola." Agricola and Germany, translated by Anthony Birley. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

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For we do not easily expect evil of those whom we love most.

Peter Abelard

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Abelard, Pierre. Historia Calamitatum [The History of My Calamities]. c. 1132.

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When 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

The God of Small Things

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Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 1.

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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. "Vanity Fair." Punch, Jan. 1847-July 1848. Monthly serial.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, edited by John Carey. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

Saki

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Westminster Gazette, Sept. 1904.

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Saki. "Reginald on Besetting Sins." Selected Stories of Saki. Everyman's Library, 2017.

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