Book IV, line 637 (reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations)
Compare: "What's one man's poison, signor, / Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647), Act III, scene 2
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.”
““What do you mean by a tyrant?”
“One whose blood was poisoned by the ambition to rule over others.””
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 309)
“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
Freedom (1908)
Source: Oeuvres complètes en seize volumes
“His food
Was glory, which was poison to his mind
And peril to his body.”
Act I, sc. 5.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
Veronika Decides to Die (1998)
Context: The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions — hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity — also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.
She (1887), CHAPTER XVII, THE BALANCE TURNS
“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”
As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/controversy/doc2.html without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3736889569
Famous speeches
