Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
[La malice hume la pluspart de son propre venin, & s’en empoisonne.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 2 (3.2), “Of Repentance [Du repentir]” (1586) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]
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