Pretext Quote by Publilius Syrus Download Open image “He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.” — Publilius Syrus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretext Wish
He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering. — French Proverb Copy Share Image
“Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself?” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and eager to avenge himself, to look for his antagonist, and finds that it is he himself who has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be angry with, and that he must put up… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in… — Waxkeep Publishing Copy Share Image
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“If one wishes for revenge, before you know it, a hurt as bad as the one wished for will come upon the wisher.” — Clamp Copy Share Image
“Any injury we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.” — Machiavelli, Niccolo Copy Share Image
“I love him and therefore I want to protect him -- even from me, if that makes sense. I didn't want to skip any… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I want to hurt the man who hurt me. I want to destroy him for destroying me. And I won’t be happy, I won’t… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of… — Robert Lewis Hinkle Copy Share Image
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized… — Pope Pius X Copy Share
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