“Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.”
Book XVIII, sec. 44.
Naturalis Historia
“From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,—a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour’s wife.”
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
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