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I do hate a proud man as I hate the engendering of toads.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Ajax, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 158-9.
Nestor wisely comments, "And yet he loves himself.")
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"I hate" from hate away she threw,
And saved my life, saying "not you."
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. Those lips that love's own hand did make (l. 13-14).
Son. The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.)
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I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Amores, 2.4. 5.)
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Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularity accompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.
(Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist. The Ego and the Id, Hogarth (1947).)
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Men hate more steadily than they love.
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. Quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, September 15, 1777 (1791).)
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You made me hate myself.
(Gilbert Ralston, U.S. screenwriter, and Daniel Mann. Willard (Bruce Davison), Willard, to his cruel employer, just before attacking him with rats (1971).)
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Hate can pardon more than love.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Essay on "Love" in letter, September 1852, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 200, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Go, I hate you not.
(Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Chimène, in The Cid, act 3, sc. 4 (1637).
Chimène declares she still loves Rodrigue, who has killed her father. One of the most famous expressions in Corneille (Va, je ne te hais point), the most cited French example of classical understatement, or litotes (expressing the affirmative by negating its opposite).)
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Hated everywhere, they hate all men.
(Jean Racine (1639-1699), French playwright. Haman, in Esther, act 2, sc. 1 (1689).
Haman is speaking of the Jews.)
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Doubt, but still hate!
(Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), French playwright. Pulchérie, in Héraclius, act 5, sc. 2 (1647).
Pulchérie, to the hero, in doubt whether to kill a tyrant who might be his father.)
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