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«Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.»
«It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others, even when they themselves have been hatefully injured. What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin.»
«If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember»
«Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: enjoy, injure, injuring, ones, pleasures, present, such
«To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.»
«I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it»
«A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [The First Law of Robotics]»
«A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. [The Zeroth Law of Robotics]»
«Never injure a friend, even in jest.»
«Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.»