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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.


Jean Jacques Rousseau

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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no
WILLIAM COWPER Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world h...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The gospel according to Jean Jacques.
THOMAS CARLYLE We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of oursel...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our competitive nature as humans means that we have a tendency to compare ourselves to others. You m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I have always been interested in this THOMAS A. EDISON Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
V.S. NAIPAUL We are only deeply interested in others as we are interested in ourselves.
FAITH LONDON The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that tho...
ERIC HOFFER We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others; while we act as evils.
M.F. MOONZAJER The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little fart...
E. M. FORSTER The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU We can see through others only when we see through ourselves
ERIC HOFFER When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...
E. M. FORSTER We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon...
E. M. FORSTER We live life not only for ourselves but for others.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest i...
AMBROSE BIERCE Pity those that never experienced poverty,for they've missed the wisdom of life's greatest teacher.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems a...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do u...
ERIC HOFFER We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the pe...
MAIMONIDES The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel ...
STEPHEN COVEY We must recognize ourselves in others before we can acknowledge otherness in ourselves.
BRITTNIE BALLARD Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are unde...
JOSE MARTI Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in o...
CARLA H. KRUEGER A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
SIMONE WEIL We only have one full-time employee now, because we couldn't afford any others, and we do a lot of t...
MARI VANDERWAL Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO God doesn't punish us.
We do that all by ourselves.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselv...
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 This matter of "salvation" is, whe...
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ERIC HOFFER Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.
BODIE THOENE In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
JULIO CORTáZAR In teaching others we teach ourselves.
PROVERB Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country
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GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only o...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Nobody is going to give us any pity and we're not going to pity ourselves. We just need to play bett...
BUDDY BELL We achieve inner health only through forgiveness - the forgiveness not only of others but also of ou...
JOSHUA LOTH LIEBMAN we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entit...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express...
PIET MONDRIAN The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others bu...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others bu...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us...
BLAISE PASCAL A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h...
CLIFFORD COHEN We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only whe...
A.J. DARKHOLME Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right ...
WILFRED PETERSON That is why not only we should ourselves engage in good deeds but also encourage others to do the sa...
SAM VEDA Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is...
UNKNOWN We see others as we see ourselves.
WILLIAM ZAFRA VELASCO We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to oursel...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselve...
DONNA TARTT If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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ANGIE KARAN Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we...
THOMAS MERTON The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves
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GEORGE SAUNDERS We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
ERIC HOFFER Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others
ERIC HOFFER If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?
C.H. HAMEL In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are w...
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS Through others we become ourselves.
LEV S. VYGOTSKY We have to look at ourselves, ... The solution rests with us. We cant look to others to take care of...
ROBERT ATWELL We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Nobody is going to have pity on you, ... If our guys are looking for pity, they're not going to get ...
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot hav...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. Fro...
ANTHONY MCCARTEN A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacati...
ANDREW MATTHEWS

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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU God made me and broke the mold.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and ...
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