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When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.
Looks | Malice | Nature | Reason | Self | Self-denial | Soul |
There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.
Equivocation | Malice | People | Will |
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály
Moral codes have become necessary because evolution, in liberating humankind from complete dependence on instincts, has also made it possible for us to act with malice that no organism ruled by instincts alone could possess.
Dependence | Evolution | Malice | Moral codes |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttlefish.
The classes of citizens are three. The rich are useless, always lusting after more. Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues; their malice stings the owners. Of the three, the middle part saves cities: it guards the order a community establishes.
He that keeps Malice, harbours a Viper in his Breast... Malice drinketh up the greatest Part of its own Poison.
Malice |
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering up on insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered. Tis treason not against one single man, but against the state - against the whole body politic; tis treason against mankind; tis treason against Common sense; tis treason against God; And this impious principle lays the foundation for justifying all the tyranny and oppression that ever any prince was guilty of. The people know for what end they set up and maintain their governors, and they are the proper judges when governors execute their trust as they ought to do it.
Body | Man | People | Play | Rights | Treason | Trust | Tyranny | Guilty |