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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
--Aeschylus (525—456 B.C.)
Greek tragic dramatist.
_Agamemnon_ [458 B.C.]

To think all you say, is but candor;
To say all you think, would be slander.
--William Allingham (1824—1899)
Irish man of letters and poet.
_Blackberries Picked Off Many Bushes_ [1884]

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is
displayed? The shallowest understanding, the
rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.
--Edmund Burke (1729—1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters.
Attributed in George Crabb _English Synonymes_, p. 200 [1826].

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless
thousands mourn.
--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.
_Man Was Made to Mourn_ [1786]

O poor mortals, how ye make this
earth bitter for each other.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
__The French Revolution: A History_ [1837]

It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the
courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can
always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's
only at night — when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our
school friend is asleep — that we can silently grieve over our own
cowardice.
--Paulo Coelho (b. 1947)
Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
_The Devil and Miss Prym_ [2000]

Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_, ch. 15, v. 23

If you can, help others. If you can't, at least don't hurt others.
--attributed to Dalai Lama [Lhama Thondup or Lhama Dhondrub] (b. 1935)
Spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism.
(Dalai Lama is Mongolian for "Ocean of Wisdom")

This hurts me more than you.
--Harry Graham (1874—1936)
British writer and journalist.
_Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes_ [1899]

A nickname is the heaviest stone
that the devil can throw at a man.
--William Hazlitt (1778—1830)
English essayist.
_Sketches and Essays_ [1839] "Nicknames"

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily.
All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.
--Robert Heinlein (1907—1988)
American science-fiction writer.
_Time Enough for Love_ [1973]

And once sent out a word takes wing beyond recall.
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 B.C.)
Roman poet.
_Epistles_, bk. I, # 18, l. 71

Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have
said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get
the better of this by saying many things to please
him.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself
in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
--Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
Iranian-born novelist.
_The Grass Is Singing_ [1950]

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other,
In blackness of heart — that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
--Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Hiner Miller] (1837—1913)
American poet and journalist.
"Is it Worthwhile?"

No man is exempt from saying silly things;
the mischief is to say them deliberately.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essais_ (Essays) [pub. 1580—1588]

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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child—
the most important lesson for every time of life—
is this: 'Never hurt anybody.'
--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
French philosopher and novelist.
_Emile; or, Treatise on Education_ [1762]


In all the ills which befall us, we look more at the intention
than the effect. A tile which falls from the house may hurt
more, but does not vex us so much as a stone thrown
designedly by an ill-natured hand.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
French philosopher and novelist.
_Reveries of a Solitary Walker_ [1782]

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These words are razors to my wounded heart.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Titus Andronicus_, I, iv [early 1590s]


This was the most unkindest cut of all.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_III, ii [1599]

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When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot
reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than
the mightiest blow.
--Bishop Robert South (1634—1716)
English theologian and author.
Attributed in Samuel Johnson _A Dictionary
of the English Language_ [1805 ed.].

We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
English poet.
_Maud; A Monodra_ [1856]

We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
"Life's Scars"

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word.
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.
_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_ [1898]

Neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shall e'er prevail against us.
--William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
English poet.
"Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" [13 July 1798]


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