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If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical

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Plutarch
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Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)

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