And as La Rochefoucauld observed, "When our hatred is too keen it puts us below those we hate," which is an allied point.
Spitzer could have added that this hatred of competition is ever-keener on Wall Street, which today, with its ranks thinned by the financial collapse, operates more like a cartel than ever.
The war "awakened a keen political awareness among Malayan people by intensifying communalism and racial hatred".
Mr Lomax A creepy, blind millionaire (Steve Pemberton) keen on stuffed toys, his collecting appetite is matched only by his hatred of the Crabtree sisters, the conjoined-twin eBay millionaires who keep thwarting his grand plans.
I've often wondered why so many of the left are keen to paint this uniquely cohesive and inclusive society as some cesspit of racial hatred.
There are many places of conflict and persecution where things would be a lot better if members of a group or nation that was responsible for perpetrating terrible wrongs had a keener and more sympathetic sense of why some people regarded them with suspicion or even hatred.
Self-hatred just leads to more hatred.
