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        Love thy neighbour as thyself; be merciful towards your enemies are two directives to humankind found in the Bible. Does it imply that both are the same persons?

        Jokes apart, it would be conceded on all hands that interactions between individuals are centred around their cordiality as friends, acquaintances and relatives and in that order.

        Dharmakootham, an ethical text, says that, except in very rare cases, conflicts of individual selfishness mostly result in the decline of friendship in the order above mentioned.

        Selfishness would be fully potent between relatives because of jealousy and property disputes. They are least cordial in the Trinity mentioned above.

        There is a saying in Sanskrit that the blood relation has fire in the eye and when he looks at the pyre where the corpse of his relative is laid, it would catch fire instantly. This is not said in disparagement of familial relations but only to stress that chances for conflict among them could explode into life-long enmity and vendetta.

        Speaking of vendetta, some communities are proverbially vindictive towards those who wrong them. Venetians of Shakespearean times were notorious for this. A righteous person will never entertain hard feelings against any one and will forgive his enemies even when they hurt him consistently. They are the angels of the earth.