“He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“The hope of all who suffer,
The dread of all who wrong.”
The Mantle of St. John de Matha, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Maxim 386.
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“Abandon all hope, you who enter here.”
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Canto III, line 9.
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“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE”
Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho
Source: American Psycho (1991), p. 3; the opening of the book.
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Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
p. 162
“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller
Source: The Storyteller