He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.


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I love treason but hate a traitor.
JULIUS CAESAR
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
THOMAS DEKKER
For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love.
JOHN HOOLE
Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
SAMUEL DANIEL
A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for...
CICERO
Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse ca...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that truste...
LORD BYRON
Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving.
ROBERT BROWNING
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PATRICK HENRY
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the lov...
BIBLE
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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RICKY WILLIAMS
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely li...
DORIS LILLY
He always said how much he hated going to the hospitals. He became more (vocal) about how much he ha...
LAURA NYGREN
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
BIBLE
I came to Hermiston in 1982 and I loved the area, but I hated this 395 corridor.
FRED ZIARI
He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.
BRIAN JONES
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
A person who hasn't hated never loved.
EPHDAN
Condemn or be condemned
HELENA DALLI
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DANIEL BRYAN
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
MINNA ANTRIM
I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.
SUNNY DEOL
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Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he ha...
NEIL GAIMAN
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TERRY PRATCHETT
Plutarch slides the sketchbook across to me.
SUZANNE COLLINS
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
MO ROCCA
I'd rather be hated for hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN
The man who spreads hatred will become hated but it doesn’t follow that the man who spreads love w...
DANIEL KEMP
Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always ro...
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But remember that in order to symbolize everything to everyone, you will be both loved and hated.
BONNIE HUIE
While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.
VIET THANH NGUYEN
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That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
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KELLY JONES
Think before acting, you get remembered by people either by being hated or being loved and being hat...
SAEED AWAD
Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
I loved going back there. I hated that I missed that.
JEFF NEELY
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
WILL CUPPY
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GERRY COONEY
If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have ...
CORNELIU ZELEA CODREANU
He hated autumn, he hated Halloween and he despised uncooperative household fixtures.
KEVIN PURDY
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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
POPE GREGORY VII
We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...
SEANAN MCGUIRE
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
HENRY JAMES
I saw the sunset-colored sands,
The Nile like flowing fire between,
Where Rameses stares...
SARA TEASDALE
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PATTI SMITH
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LYSANDER SPOONER
He played the tour because he loved the game, but he loved to play percentage golf,'' Miller said.
CLINT EASTWOOD
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn
MARCEL JOUHANDEAU
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
WILL CUPPY
Caesar did not merit the triumphal Car, more than he that conquers himself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He was a genuine defector. Yurchenko was a real traitor,
OLEG KALUGIN
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RICHARD WIDMARK
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LAURA LINNEY
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ED O'NEILL
The one who is hated by all can still be loved by God if his heart is pure.
KOWSALAPATHY
I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as wel...
JIM BROWN
It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of you...
BETTE DAVIS
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
KURT COBAIN
He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.
JENNIFER WEINER
America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most lov...
DINESH D'SOUZA
Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. ...
RICCARDO BRUNI
Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN
Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
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CARLTON MELLICK III
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ...
TOM VERLAINE
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice ha...
ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN
You carry Caesar and Caesar's fortune. [Lat., Caesarem vehis, Caesarisque fortunam.] - Juliu...
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FREDDIE PRINZE, JR.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
SIR JOHN HARRINGTON
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason
JOHN HARINGTON
I roll into pure thought and sit and sulk at the wall. Tears don't, usually, come pouring from my ey...
KAYLA RAE
Enemy always has a Fake Reason, Traitors always has Real Treason
SUDIP SENSHARMA
I love to love and to be loved, yet hate to hate and to be hated.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
You know," he said, "you have a really weird relationship with treason.
JAMES S.A. COREY
He loved to fish. He loved the outdoors. He just loved life.
JOANNE DAANE
And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
BIBLE
He loved (radio personalities) Bob and Tom, he loved his truck, he loved racing and he loved being w...
JIM O'HARA
The Sid Caesar Collection.
SID CAESAR
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
ANDRE GIDE
It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
MARKUS ZUSAK
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
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