Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn."
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Hateful
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Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"There is nothing more hateful than bad advice."
Homer
Poet
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful."
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"The Jews are the most hateful and the most shameful of the small nations."
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"I hate hateful people."
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"I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!"
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"The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed."
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"Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning."
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"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."
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"Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility."
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"We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net."
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"In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful"
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"The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent."
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"Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask."
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"I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are."
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"The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology."
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"Le moi est ha|«s sable. The self is hateful."
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"I try not to be hateful."
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"Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid."
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"I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others."
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"I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome."
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"Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun."
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"All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve."
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