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Benjamin Franklin3 quotes
Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment. — Benjamin Franklin · 1745E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within. — Benjamin Franklin · 1741Search others for their Virtues, thyself for thy Vices. — Benjamin Franklin · 1738Aristotle1 quote
The guest will judge better of a feast than a cook. — Aristotle · 350 BCFrances Burney1 quote
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'its the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them. — Frances Burney · 1796Francois de La Rochefoucauld1 quote
Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678Henry David Thoreau1 quote
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Hollyhock1 quote
That voice, the one that tells you you're worthless and stupid and ugly…it goes away, right? — Hollyhock · 2017Jonathan Swift1 quote
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. — Jonathan Swift · 1704Lisa Simpson1 quote
Shut up, brain. I got friends now. I don't need you anymore. — Lisa Simpson · 1994Mark Twain1 quote
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. — Mark Twain · 1897Moliere1 quote
One should look long and carefully at oneself
Before one considers judging others. — Moliere · 1666Nathaniel Hawthorne1 quote
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self! — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1851Polybius1 quote
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. — Polybius · 118 BCSamuel Johnson1 quote
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare. — Samuel Johnson · 1778Sir Thomas Browne1 quote
But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to our selves? — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643Socrates1 quote
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BC