“"One of the worst major wrong actions is for a man to curse his parents." It was said, "O Messenger of Allah, how can a man curse his parents?" He said, "He may curse another man's father who in turn curses his father, and curse his mother and he in turn curses his mother."”

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed

Ibn Maja, 2313 http://ahadith.co.uk/permalink-hadith-9685 <br class="br">Sunni Hadith

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

Sia maladetto chi si fidò mai,
O vuol fidarsi di donna che sia;
Che false sono e maladette tutte;
E più anche le belle che le brutte.
XXII, 49
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato

Act IV, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

Source: The Sea of Monsters

In "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §3
The Cyberiad (1967)

Poem without a Hero (1963)
Context: All the mirrors on the wall
show a man not yet appeared
who could not enter this white hall.
He is no better and no worse,
but he is free of Lethe's curse:
his warm hand makes a human pledge.
Strayed from the future, can it be
that he will really come to me,
turning left from the bridge?

The Book of the Law (1904)