““What do you mean by a tyrant?”
“One whose blood was poisoned by the ambition to rule over others.””
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 309)
“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 <br class="br">Famous speeches
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“What is one person's pleasure is another's poison….”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”
Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
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)
“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“4380. That which is one Man’s Meat, is another Man’s Poison.”
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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.”
Steven Erikson book Midnight Tides
Source: Midnight Tides (2004)
“My master Attalus used to say: "Evil herself drinks the largest portion of her own poison." The poison which serpents carry for the destruction of others, and secrete without harm to themselves, is not like this poison; for this sort is ruinous to the possessor.”
Quemadmodum Attalus noster dicere solebat, 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'. Illud venenum quod serpentes in alienam perniciem proferunt, sine sua continent, non est huic simile: hoc habentibus pessimum est.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Quemadmodum Attalus noster dicere solebat, 'malitia ipsa maximam partem veneni sui bibit'.
Illud venenum quod serpentes in alienam perniciem proferunt, sine sua continent, non est huic simile: hoc habentibus pessimum est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXI: On benefits, Line 22
“The future was with Fate. The present was our own.
~ The Poison Belt”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“This much poison cannot pour in one’s ears without it will leave some trace.”
Tanith Lee book Quest for the White Witch
Book Two, Part III “The Sorceress”, Chapter 1 (p. 302)
Quest for the White Witch (1978)