Benefits Quote by Joseph Addison

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

— Joseph Addison

“treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.”

— Greg Iles

Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the…

— William Morley Punshon

“Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).”

— Lao Tzu

“Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.

— George W. Buck

“No matter how fierce the enemy seems--when fear cripples us, anger enrages us, or selfishness possesses us; when adversity crushes us, opposition hounds us,…

— Katy Kauffman

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some…

— Jim Butcher

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of…

— Anonymous

“People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.”

— Carrie Lofty

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them…

— Thucydides