Related for Bava Kamma 76:1

מואבים עצמן לא כל שכן

in the case of the Moabites [themselves] should not the same injunction apply even more strongly? But the Holy One, blessed be He, said to him: The idea you have in your mind is not the idea I have in My mind. Two doves have I to bring forth from them;1 Ruth the Moabitess and Naamah the Ammonitess. Now cannot we base on this an a fortiori argument as follows: If for the sake of two virtuous descendants the Holy One, blessed be He, showed pity to two great nations so that they were not destroyed, may we not be assured that if your honour's daughter had indeed been righteous and worthy to have goodly issue, she would have continued to live?

Tractate Kutim

The Samaritan is on the same footing as an Israelite in regard to all damages mentioned in the Torah. Whether an Israelite kills a Samaritan or a Samaritan kills an Israelite, if he did it by inadvertence he goes into exile [to a City of Refuge], if wilfully he is put to death. If the ox of an Israelite gored the ox of a Samaritan he is exempt from damages;²i.e. if it was not known to have a tendency to be a gorer. but should the ox of a Samaritan have gored the ox of an Israelite, if the ox is tam he pays half the damage and if it is mu‘ad³תם (innocuous) denotes an ox which had not previously gored, mu‘ad (warned) one which had done so and the owner had been warned. he pays the whole damage. R. Meir said: If an ox of a Samaritan gores the ox of an Israelite, whether it is tam or mu‘ad the owner pays the whole damage and pays from his best possessions.⁴[Cf. B.Ḳ. 38b (Sonc. ed., p. 217).]

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